... the local bishops of England, or France or America. M. De Mon talembert was, ecclesiastically, an old- fashioned aristocratic Whig. The Ultra- montanes, whom he came to detest so cordially, are votaries of Cassarism in the Church. He wanted to retain the ...

... himself little or nothing in common. Yet who would class his intensities of historical and critical colouring with the virulent Whig partisanship of a writer like Macaulay, or the Radical untruthfulness of sundry other picturesque historians still living amongst ...

... bill is gone. Buff and Blue we believe those houses still are and probably no man will ever witness the unnatural sight of a Whig Cabinet dining at the Ship or a Conservative at the Trafalgar. But as to any real competition between them for the patronage ...

... 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 ...

... journalism as a devoted disciple of Henry Clay, the Tribune was recognised for many years as the leading organ of the Old Clay Whigs, and its in fluence in the last seven or eight Presidential campaigns has been vastly greater than that of any other journal ...

... there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort. Can even any old Whig wish that every Lord Lieutenant of a county should be an old Whig? Can it be good for the adminis tration of the law that none but Liberal lawyers should become ...

... regarded by many as the only possible leader of the liberal party, should Mr. Gresham for any reason fail them. Indeed the old Whigs, of whom Barrington Erie con sidered himself to be one, would have much preferred the Duke to Mr. Gresham, had it been possible ...

... return, and was very kindly received by his grace. In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs should be uncles, brothers- in-laws, or cousins to each otber. This was pleasant ...

... said Phineas. But if I understand your object, it is chiefly the maintenance of the old-established political power of the Whigs. You believe in families I do believe in the patriotism of certain families. I believe that the Mildmays, FitzIIowards, and ...

... originally by private friendship or family considerations, which one Minister leaves to another. Sir Gregory Grogram, the great Whig lawyer, showed plainly by his manner that he thought himself at last secure of reaching the reward for which he had been struggling ...

... Conservative dukes and lords are recruited here and there, and as recruits, are new to the business, whereas among the old Whigs a halo of statecraft has, for ages past, so strongly pervaded and enveloped certain great families, that the power in the world ...

... greater. Even the Duke of St. Bungay had visited the spot, well known to him, as there the urban domains meet of two great Whig peers, with whom and whose predecessors he had long been familiar. He also had known Phineas Finn, and not long since bad said ...