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 ...

WORK-A-DAY BRIERS

... Near Craywich also resided the Langhornes, a family once of some consequence, but now in rapid decadence, and as bitterly Whig in principle as the Aldersons were Tory to the core. George Langhorne was a clever, ambitious lad of nineteen, noticeable in ...

LORD LIVERPOOL

... coalition was for a long time possible between the Whigs and the Canningites ; and when these reasons had almost disappeared the only medium of communication with the Oppo- sition leaders was no longer in the Whig camp. Lord Grenville had retired from public ...

CUTTINGS FROM THE COMIC JOURNALS

... but they may geti mar- ried to nmen who love their morhing cigars, then we opine their opinions will end in smoke. A great whig peer, was maldng his will the other 'cay, and after he had dicated it hin lawyer pointed out to him that he had made no provision ...

A SONG BY EARL RUSSELL

... alone. The State may droop, the Church may drown, ty Your John will dance his jigs, X The Whigs once more shall have their own, a d, And Jehn shall rule the Whigs. l .i The Express says the report of the Commissioners on the n, Revenues of the Irish Church ...

AN ELECTION STAVE

... added that tas noble earls and Iord 7 Palmerston were, at with the exception of Lord Melbourne, the only members ad of the Whig Cabinet who obtained the premiership after id Ean Gre 's retirement from power. It may further be sh remarkcethat Lords Palmerston ...

POETRY

... Cranborne. Please Cranborne, come home! 'Cvce.r'erne. dear Cranborne, come back to us now, And stick to the old Tory blue; -'here's Whig, and there's Rad., and there's no one knows who, bltt, none of their colours will do. 1t5fth Peel and with Cronzborne to serve ...

BOOKS RECEIVED

... By E. T. Stevens, A.K.C. Lon., and Charles Hole, F.R.G.S. The Senior Class Reader. Longmans.-'Justice to Ireland; or, the Whigs and the Tories.' A Conversation between Mr Cornelius O'Flaherty, of Melbourne, Australia, and Mr Patrick O'Brien, of the co ...

LITERATURE

... thought to the intelligent observes. Everybody appeared to have turned his coat and changed 2is principles. The tories were whigs, and the whigp tories. Ciosar and Pompdy were exactly alike, especially pomapy. it was a very eatecest. Every man *eganto ...

MR GLADSTONE

... question into Mr Gladstone's hands. The chances, or rather the certainties were that the majority of sixty-five would b' to the Whigs what his last victory was to Hannibal. The dis- organisatioi of the Liberal host always begins as soon as its leaders pitch ...

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