... long spells of office. At the present moment Scotland and Wales return 61 Whigs against 29 Tories, and, if we add the somewhat doubtful Home Rule Brigade of the sister isle to the Whig side, the Liberals command a majority in the United Kingdom (exclusive ...

... shifting of opinions by which the staunch Whig of one generation found him self stranded and left behind as a Tory by the next gene ration. Once upon a time we called the advanced guard of politicians New Whigs, now we call them Radicals. Reform was the ...

... June 1832, he took an active part as a member of the Whig Opposition, and threatened to become a serious rival of Lord John Russell for the future leadership of the party. On the accession of the Whigs to office, in the month of November 1830, he was made ...

... and full of abuses. Then came the Whigs, and did great good. At a time when Lnglishmen were taxed in every way which ingenuity could devise when a fiscal impost was levied on nearly every necessary of life the Whigs raised the banner of retrenchment, ...

... Catholic Emancipation had all been Tory measures before they were adopted by the Whigs and that if the Tories had offended against civil and religious liberty in Scotland, the Whigs offended against it still more deeply, and for a still longer period, in Ireland ...

... being a Whig humbug for not resigning at an earlier hour of the day Sir Sydney is no more a Whig than Mr. Odger is a metaphy sician. He tells us that the old Whigs have declared war against working men as representatives. Where are the old Whigs Where ...

... England and the United States we hear and sec a great deal of the political party which happens to be temporarily in a minority. Whigs and Democrats make their voices heard pretty effectually notwithstanding that Tories and Republicans are in power but when ...

... them but he could remember when, as a Whig baby, he was taught to look on a Dissenter as being much in the same category as a murderer, and on a Dissenting chapel as a den of iniquity, to be quickly passed by. The Whig babies of a '.iter generation had not ...

... and there was no limit to the earnestness with which he strove to abolish it, or at any rate to bring it within the proper Whig limits. Hence nearly all the measures by which he is best known may be described as of a negative character. Statesmen of this ...

... fore stalled by the Tories. Lord Beaconsfield has never absolutely committed himself on the subject and having dished the Whigs, the author of household suffrage may not be unwilling to end his career by dishing the whole Liberal party. No such possibility ...

... as we do that there have been Whigs and Tories, under various appellations, ever since the world began, and although we do not wish to imitate his acrimony by stating the name (according to Dr. Johnson) of the first Whig, we cannot admit that one party ...

... ornamental appendage of the Constitution. The writer of the passage above referred to apparently holds the old time-honoured Whig view concerning this subject. As regards the practical affairs of State, he would keep the Sovereign and the Sovereign's family ...