... fruit that was forbidden her? There were Whigs and Tories, asnow, 150yearskgo,and advantage wasalwaystaken when a woman was reigning. It was so in Queen Anne's days. Who took advantage of that poor woman but the Whigs? Tho Radical papers had within the last ...

... plain speaking. The country said that the Irish Church should be disestablished and disendowed the Lords, that is to say the Whig and Conservative Lords, have said that the surplus funds shall be used towards a partial concurrent endowment. Intrinsi- cally ...

... was now upon its trial. Pauperism had increased, fend the taxes of the country had become unprece- dentedly heavy since the Whigs had been in power, and now the taxes were to be called for twelve months in advance. Ireland, instead of having been tranquillised ...

... Regarding the increase of the poor rate, he was convinced that at last it mu=t force itself on the attention of statesmen, whether Whigs or Tories, in or out of office. It was also his lirm conviction, however unpopular it might be, that there had been more honesty ...

... for the office of Finance Minister. Whereas, since the death of Sir George Coruewall Lewis there were but two, one eminent Whig, and one eminent Tory. In any case the prestige of finan- cial ability now acquired by Mr. Lowe must be regarded as a new quantity ...

... my Conservative friends that the rejection of the bill will bo moved by a Whig peer, and in that case it will. choy say, be seconded by Lord Derby. They believe that several Whigs will support them, among them the Duke of Somerset (for whom no place has ...

... seems to have been originally designed in its present form chiefly to explain why he left the Tories and took office under the Whig Earl Grey a change which, nPdincr to Lord Palmerston's chivalrous sense of hrnour could only be justified by the fact that ...

... Opposition, all the bishops •present except the Eishop of Oxford (who voted with the Government), and the body of independent Whigs, has thrown overboard all the clauses relating to SfcLe disposal of the surplus and shelved that question altogether, has so ...

... each other, and Whig and Tory have never proved words of power enough to interfere much with an eligible match in the regions of the Red Book. For our part, we welcome the relations springing up between the great old Houses of Whig and Tory; and if ...

... consequently in his seventy-first year. His father, who did not succeed to the Earldom until thirty- five years later, was a strong Whig; but his tastes lay rather in the direction of natural history than politics. He was president of the Linnsean and Zoological ...

... The Prince arrived at Edinburgh at a quarter past ten last evening, and was to leave this morning for Che5ter. The Northern Whig hopes that a Government Commission of inquiry, which it believes will soon be issued, will do something to tranquillize the ...

... leagues. After dwelling upon the antagonism between constitutional Whiggery and Communism to the per- sonal dislike of the Whig aristocracy to Mr. Bright; to Mr. Lowe's impracticable arrogance; and Mr. Glad- stone s impetuous egotism; the writer argues ...