... every occasion which has yet offered itself in favour of the principle of levelling up or concurrent endowment, as hereditary Whig might be expected to do. Mr. Bright, great orator he unquestionably is, has not yet mastered the art of after-dinner discourse ...

... should govern promotion. While Mr. Disraeli and tbe Tories were all that was corrupt and base, and Lord Palmej-stonandthe Whigs not much better, Mr. Gladstone •nd his colleagues would be the wisest, most virtuous, and purest of men. This is what was said ...

... present Lord Derby, who was summoned in his father's barony. With the accession of Lord John Russell to power in 1846 the old Whig system was revived, and since that time no less than seventy-three new peerages have been added to the roll of the House, of ...

... n of amendments to the Bill committee, John Bull adds, Of course if Lord Derby finds the Bill defeated by the action of a Whig peer, he will interpose no obstacle, but he will not allow the Bill to be read a second time. Large meetings, it is further ...

... are called the Whigs and the Tories—l have often been surprised that, after the great vicissitudes in our history the two parties of Whig and Tory have always reappeared. Notwithstanding the enormous blunders and mistakes that both Whigs and Tories have ...

... whose learning and services, it might have been hoped, would have procured him some modest church preferment from Liberal, or Whig, or Tory premier. But one and all passed him over, and even bishops and chapters took no heed of him, and so it comes to pass ...

... 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, according to Lord Palmerston's chivalrous sense of honour, could only be justified by the fact that ...

... fourteenth Earl of Derby, though he has had no unworthy successor in his son the present and fifteenth Earl. The ranks of old Whig officials have been thinned the removal of Lord Broughton, better known as Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and ...

... evils than those of an English borough election. He stated : Parties were not divided Australia as they used to be. Instead of Whigs and Tories, he would rather classify them as ins and outs. The average duration of an Australian ministry was seven months ...

... was in financial difficulties, and this edict of Mr. M'Culloch's, like Mr. Greg's similar manifesto, was no doubt part of a Whig movement in favour of economy. Limited Companies are looking up. The latest project submitted to the public is one for recovering ...

... universal Eve. * . , sketch had fallen that chance, the throne. She . Her husband was Dane, thorough-bred. A lory, governed by the Whigs ; like woman, like a mad - She had fits of rage. She was violent, a brawler. Noflbdy more awkward than Anne in directing affairs ...

... a '' withdrawal the part of the Conservatives from the race of office,*' and a consistent and resolute upholding of the Whigs and moderate Liberals against the Radical section of the Ministerial majority, even at the cost of excluding themselves from ...