... ledged. In his literary generosity he knew no dis- tinctions of party. Though a Tory of the most un- compromising kind, the Whig Bishop Burnet, in the preface to the third volume of his History of the Reformation, wrote of him thus :- A gentleman in ...

... enough to stand alone, it is at least so strong that the Whig section can do nothing without it. Yet it is almost everywhere ready to accept the old leadership; what it will nowhere accept is Whig dictation. Mr. Jenkins's career at Truro is a most typical ...

... 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 ...

... only a Tory, and a very High Tory, who had taken care more than once that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it, which alone was enough to rouse up the great Whig reviewer, but, moreover, he had at least three times spoken very roughly to Macaulay's ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... may indeed have established a real point of difference between the Whigs and the Conservatives, but he will have established an equally strong one between the English public and the Whigs. The Daily Secas thinks that the county franchise, to the extension ...

... appeal to the people is a piece of jugglery, and that it would be just as reasonable *to ask French villagers if they are Whigs or Tories, or if they prefer the Roman constitution to that of Athens, as to ask them to decide on the form ,of government ...

... had been eager for legislative change became tired of it or afraid of. it, so the House of Lords took heart and prevented the Whig Government from carrying it further. But still a legacy of those days remained in the general impression that Parliament is ...

... accession of the Coalition Government to power under Lord ABERDEEN. DANIEL O'CO°NELL, during the later tenure of office by the Whigs, had Practically sold the whole Irish vote to the Government for the y`hole of the Irish patronage. But when the Conservatives ...

... what falls from the lips of great lords. The French ,Ambassador, we are told, should visit English Democrats and the leading Whigs. There is no news of importance from the East or concerning the East. The Temps, however, declares that there is no truth in ...

... of great Whig ladies. It is unnecessary to say that our remarks have no application to the now contemplated Royal marriage or to any one of the great political parties. Multiplied Tory alliances are as much to be feared as multiplied Whig alliances; ...