PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... some tune to develops all its beauties, but when. the toot eisemble bursts upon our gaze we see Fairies mounting on butterfly whigs, and in all directions floating apparently in empty air. The Pantotnimne abounds Niith musicselected from thecouispositionsof ...

Published: Sunday 05 January 1868
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 26057 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... faith when he first essayed to buy his way into Parliament i foePontefract. Thrown by accident; rather than choice, into , Whig society, he took the next chance that offered, and made'* a dash at Hertford. The Salisbury interest was powerful there; and ...

NEW BOOKS

... meansoflthe Revolution we are bound to drive the party to logical conclusions, or break it into a thousand pieces, as was the old whig party, unless t we get oulr rights.' That bron ht him to his poketbabok, and he signed his name Atnrew Job neon, with a bold ...

LITERATURE

... so gained remains as an inheritance to our bar of the present day -a most valuable I piece of patronage for Lords Advocate, Whig or Tory; but its tendency has been towards ease and. honour, while the Subntitute's office has been to. wards work and practical ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... imperial court, to emerge osatof bihi67lly little uncleanly Teu- tonic paradise, and eubrilt himself to thezaustic in- apectien of Whig wits and Jacobite sneess It was the greatest sacrifice -f-comfort to grandeur that has beentmadein modera times. These roy ...

ROBINSON CRUSOE

... first had the misfortune to differ with his friends, and embarked on the vexed sea of politics in his pamphlet attacking the Whig sympathy with the Turks. What the event was which corresponded to the shipwreck wherein all the men perished but himself ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... Tuoexav EvoTDR-O)ne Of the ?? isiof the steamer Cslumet, which plies re'eularly between Vioksburg and Tallabaitoble, tells the Whig of the forewter city the follow-' Ing veracious natks story :- Oa the Tallahatohie River, not long sines, an enermous rai ...

LITERATURE

... first Reform Bill. They succeeded to the inhersitance of the old Whigs, who in their time did g good yeoman's service to the State. There are individual W: higs left now, but the Whigs as a party are dead and e gone. No young politician starting in public ...

LITERATURE

... Expedition are published in this part, and a political article, headed Opposition Tactics, contains some severe remarks upon the Whigs. An atmusing trifle of alighter order is A 1enuan Alars, and Linda Tr'essel, the- novel of the magazine, becomes more interesting ...

Published: Sunday 08 March 1868
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1249 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... of Toulon and the retreat of Corunna he had represented the county of Perth in the House of Commons. ' He was a consistent 'Whig, and his views on Catholic eman. cipation found so little favour with his constituents that on the general election of 1807 ...

ENGLISH DISSENT

... suggested within the succeeding hundred years. Finally it was tried in the Corn- prehension scheme of x689, which our best Whig historians, Barnet, Hallam, and Macaulay, are agreed in considering as happily frustrated. Certainly, had it succeeded, it ...

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH

... FROMI PUNCH. DIZZY IN DIFFICULTIES. (BY A M!rsssca. OF T'fE1 CONTRY PIRTTY.) I tell 'ee what, mun, whether You're ?? or a Whig, The longest way to market is the way you drives a pig. If you makes any footmarks, they as follor3 'em 'ool find What zigzag ...