... there were giants in every walk. The idea was to live luxuriously at the cost of a prlvat4 establishment. The advent of the Whigs to power was marked by the foundation of the Reform Club, which, after years of building difficulties and debt, is still one ...

... a reed, it does not follow that a German flute is any relation to a German Reed. LIBEL.—It has been actually said that the Whigs are likely to become Fenian—because, forsooth, wigs are never firmly attached to the crown. The devil is not so black, ...

... the present Duke—there is no Marquis of Devanshirewbo, before he succeeded to the title, was Earl of Burlington, is an old Whig of the intellectual class ; he took high honours at Cambridge, and is unlike, in every respect, the Irish peer. I ass in Wales ...

... of The Rerolution we are bound to drive the party to logkel conclusions, or break it into a thousand pieces as was the old Whig party, unless we get our rights.' That brought him to his pocket-book, and he signed his Andrew Johnson, with a bold band, ...

... Cabinet in refusing concession or conciliation to America. And what have we now ? When power was to be snatched from the Whigs, Lord Stanley was full of hopes and hints that the Alabama question might be settled. A precious year and a half of peace has ...

... ME CULTIVATION OF FLAX DURING THE ENSUING YEAR. The Northers Whig gives the following advice on this sakiect The great difficulty under which the linen trade suffers is the dearness of flax, and the chief remedy for this is to increase the average yield ...

... parties, who join so harmoniously in a sort of concert on divers instruments, are the representatives of the Conservatives, Whigs, and Radicals of 1836 and 1838. The subject of Public Schools brought up the schools of London, using the word in its larger ...

... whether he could tell the answer to the boyish riddle' Why is a bald man's hat like heaven r —replied, ' Because there is not a Whig in it.' . ...

... condition, and it once strangled with a piece of string found tied toned its neck. The murderers had tried to burn the body, but, Whig they ran some risk of detection, they bad Sully thrown it into the water. It came to the name to testify to the crizaa, bat ...

... Derby, it was suggested that the noble Premier would retire from public life, whilst all parties deplored the necessity, and Whig and Tory, alike with Radical and Conservative, eulogised his individual character apart from politics. The Times even gave ...

... very fond of apples and nice things. One day he went out for a walk with his friend Cecil, and passed by the orchard of Farmer Whig, when the trees were covered with beautiful ripe fruit. See, said Benjamin, what fine apples are there, let us climb over ...

... pointment at the result of the last election, in the hourand-a-half speech which he made them, along with his bbW'at parting— The Whigs have cast me pff, said he, gad they shall repent it ' I cannot take upon myself to eniaver for an accurate reminiscence ...