... force. The order was caused by the late Admiral Sr M. Berkeley, M.P., formerly First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, &e., under the Whig Government that day, who, in reply to a member of the Government in the House, stated that under these circumstances in a very ...

... Presidency the British High Commission at Washington was quite ingenuously characteristic of the congenial porsuasion that a Whig Lord must be irresistible on the other side of the Atlantic. Besides, to a Granville a Ripon appears a man of genius. Lord ...

... there have been great political demonstrations—both Liberal and Tory—in the historical capital of Scotland. The Edinburgh Whigs still live on the memory triumphant demonstrations the days when Lord Brougham was political power in the land. much later ...

... THE GLOBE, SATURDAY, MARCH 14. 1874. the burden of a colonial empire; and Lord GRANVILLE (whom the Whigs clung to as a survivor of the Palmerstonian regime) was regarded with favour as a distinguished member of the Cobden Club, who would think nothing ...

... pushed to its utmost limits. Rather, however, than fail in satisfying the false cry which they themselves bad originated, the Whig Government decided to risk the efficiency the Navy, and to inflict, without remorse, unparalleled cruelty and injustice on ...

... An nnixoken succession of excep ionally able leaders, and the respect which the liadscals long continued to feel for their Whig patrons, have prevented this singular system iron doing all the harm which. might rilasie. been expected from ir. But it remains ...

... Power took part, was hot one. Before all was over another combatant branded his fellow as * Whig disruption is ana third was described a« * Disappointed Whig placohunter.* There were charges also oathbreaking ; and, in short, a general scrimmage took ...

... interest. For several generations the families to which these gentlemen belong have contested the representation of the county on Whig and Tory principles. The fact that they have abandoned the political creeds of their respective families is one of the signs ...

... would arise in the mind of an average Englishman in contemplating the person of Policeman X, would be as to whether he were a Whig or a Tory. We suppose that in private life Policeman X has his political predilections just as ordinary human beings have, ...

... John Russell defeated the Derby Reform Bill on its second reading in 1859. The fallacy it sought to combat was that with which Whig politicians so long deceived the country, namely,tbeoutcryfor a loweringof the franchise upon settled principle, and therefore ...

... last night of reckoning among their followers many members of the late Government, well of the rank and file the decimated Whig party. These right honourable and honourable gentlemen had, when themselves in office, strenuously opposed every attempt at ...

... electors who have yet to record their, verdict to complete this decisive manifestation of the national will. A few Scotch Whigs will not avail to reverse the judgment of all the great centres of industry and intelligence. A few Irish Ultramontane deputies ...