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A HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.*

... the death of Anne the Whigs were decisively Oictorious, and maintained their place without interruption for nearly half a century. Mr. Lecky, therefore, appropriately begins his treat- inent of this era by a full analysis of the Whig party; and he is icniaikably ...

LORD DALLING'S LIFE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL.*

... and gained their reputation by adopting Whig principles. What Whig principles? Free Trade? That was the principle of Boling- broke and Pitt, denounced by Somerset and Fox. Roman Catholic Eman- cipation ? The Whigs borrowed it from the Tories. Parliamentary ...

NEW MSS. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

... notes of monuments and inscriptions in London churches, by Peter Le Neve: a rate- book of Dartford, 1727-r785; a collection of Whig or Anti-Jacobite ballads and songs, 1688-1747 ; a volume of ancient Scottish poems, 1725; letters of Thomas Warton to Edmond ...

CUTTINGS FROM THE COMIC JOURNALS

... new Lord Chancellor. It is quite time It had a Palmerbs tone about it again; for by this means it may tempt hbak the old Whigs to be Its supporters. CABINEr PonDDIGo-The Cabinet met on the loth Inst. After the minutes of the previous meeting had been ...

NEW NOVELS

... come home to Miss Turner and I, The good Tryon flumped out L of the room, Charles II. and Cromwell-is a biter pill for a Whig,-.these are but a few of the grammatical eccentricities to be found in Hetty. We would recommend Mr. Kingsley a 1primer ...

THE READER

... thirty and odd years of English history, present a careful, and in some respects, perhaps, a slightly novel portrait of the Whig Premier of Queen Victoria's earlier years, from the pen of one who knew and loved him well. The chief who led so long the proudest ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1878
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1901 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CURRENT LITERATURE

... right place as a Liberal in saying that a thoroughgoing Liberal of the present day is a Whig of the type of Fox; though he does gross inj ustice 'to. th-e *mere Whigs, as he calls them, of the ?? by naying that they are as treo Tories as Lord Liver- Vool ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... cirde traced by lbs great whig or Tory alliances. To- day the people g'ar to share power; the men of the pavement want to bo more than mnere steps upn which others may to office Slimb. A national party claim to supereede a Whig, a Tor, or a shoddy laberal ...

LORD MACAULAY.*

... these points. At all events, we see that so early as i833 Macaulay had begun to doubt whether he could continue to act with the Whig party, and this was one of his reasons for accepting the appointment in India. And again, in .1852, he declined to join Lord ...

BARRY SULLIVAN IN BELFAST

... tragedlaii's belief in any distinctive coldness of our Niorthern people ns compared with their Southern countrymen. The Sortlhern W'hig, of the saene date, remarks that Mr Barry Sullivan, who is one of the Christmas institutions of the town, and one of the most ...

Published: Sunday 03 January 1875
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 638 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE FASHIONS FOR MARCH

... efficient working class organization for electoral purposes in that borough, for protecting labour againstthe triclks and plots of Whigs dnd Tories, planned to keep out working men from entering parliament, and considers this ana nrgent question for the imnmediato ...

A Trombone Player in Trouble

... whrihcie belda felvcwg s iren and Iresentedsto r Walton Gorflon, Shafieds avorie Cown Ferury 4th 182,as a mark of esteem in whig be s hld b u ew amireS std fien s et bffisld. ...

Published: Sunday 03 March 1872
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 620 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture