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... ORIGIN OF TERMS “ WHIG™ AND “TORY.” THE significance of these terma, used to designate opposite political parties, is too well known to need description. Respecting their origin there is some difference of opinion. In the reign of Charles II they carried ...
... THIS EVENING. “THE BATTLE OF SEDAN.” OMAS MacKNIGHT, Esy. (EDITOR Nertéen Whig) will LECTURE on the above subject in the CLARENCE PLACE HALL, on WEDNESDAY Evening, 27th Sept., 1871, at Kight o'clock. Purp Jouxstox, Esq , Mayor, will Preside. A Collection ...
... CORRESPONDENCE. A ONECT L ‘TENANT- 70 THE EDITOR OF THE BULYas? MORNING a letter published in the Weekly Whig of Jane; 1878, I sketched a One-Clause All: Treland Land for effecting what Mr. Glad- stone by the Act of 1870: indirectly, and Mr. Batt, in ...
... Lectvre.—On night a lecture was delivered in Clarence Place Hall, by Thomas Mao Kni; Esq., Editor of the Northern Whig, on “The Sedan.’ (the Mayor), occupied the chair, and introduced Mr. MacKnight. The lecturer gave ® very and entertaining account of ...
... Derivations,” pub- lished so lately as 1867, seems to favour Bailey's definitions, and derives “ Whig” from “ whig,” the Scotch for whey, or from a sound whig, used in Scotland in driving horses ; and “ Tory” it derives from a Celtic word, toree, “ give ...
... the ordizary business bad been Gouldiog, aod Mr. Healy seconded—* to save the historic Clare from the politicel of electing a Whig or = Tory, the Executive of the Home Bi deem it their duty to express a hope that the Clare electors will Rule candidate—The ...
... can- didature of the old Whig hack, Mr. William 3riev, in Eani+, remiods us of this story. lf sent to tre House of Commons he would be the * of the Home Kale party. might stand amongst them fcr some time, but only let the Whig trumpet sound and his oid ...
... dwelling-houses have been one bid at the sale—that of Mr. Andrew | was only int, who offered £200 —which will be submitted | Whig Court of Bankruptcy and Insolvency for ap- | to the val. Mr. Wm. E. Armstrong, Messrs. | Cronhelm, Son, & Tobias, solicitors ...
... convinced of the essential injustice, impolicy, and peril of the existing lind laws that he is ready to wv ote for any Ministry, Whig or Tory, that will pled ze to deal with their reform. The Liberal patty, they are worthy of the name, o he continues, if ught ...
... injustice if you set im down as a hungry , who wants to put the patronage of the army to the same Liberal uses as successive Whig First Lords put the navy for a long series of years. Their -in-Chief is that ments and districts on the same rule as he has ...
... whilkt Speeches Then I voted in) variably with the majority of the Trish members, whether that majority consisted of Radicala, Whigs, or Conservatives, This I did because I was that the Irish were bet- ter qualified to know what of their own country than I ...
... contests of the rival parties is to be fought out on the foreign policy of the Government. We are on the eve of a regular Whigs and Pories, Conserva- crisis, during which scramble for place rival merits of Torks and tile Me. Batt has stated his loyal ...