... fox Was caught among his native rocks, And to a dirty kennel chained, How he his liberty regained. Glenriddel, a Whig without a stain, A Whig in principle and grain, Couldst thou enslave a freeborn creature— A native denizen of nature ? How could'st thou ...

... whose favour he would otherwise give it. A case occurred during the Reform times in the large borough of Salford in which the Whig and Tory candidates polled exactly the same number of votes. The Mayor, beiug called upou to give his casting vote, from a ...

... they see that the time has come for their taking a hand in the winning game. Talk of Dizzy dishing the Whigs,” forsooth ! Why, it has been the Whigs dishing Trevelyan, if it is anything. How- ever, let us be thankful for results, whatever the motives or ...

... w June 2. 1826. May SI, IBM, July 6 IS6*.. The Septennial Act was passe*! by Whig Ministers* and six of the Parliaments named above—viz.* the first five and the last—were Whig Parliaments. Since the Reform Bill of Parliaments have been generally short-lived ...

... HMENT, The sensible Conservatives are, it is said, not sorry that Mr Gladstone made it up at the last moment with the old Whigs, and so was kept from going over to the Radical camp. They argue, shrewdly enough, that Mr Gladstone would not get Radical ...

... Peterborough, to the throne of Durham, and Dr Alexander, of Derry, to Dr Magee's present see. But, to begin with Dr Baring, who is Whig and an extreme Low Churchman, he is not going to oblige the Beaconsfield Ministry by throwing in their way one of the great ...

... LORD GEORGE CAVENDISH. Another old Whig—one of the last of the old stock still remaining—is going to retire, or, at least, will not seek re-election. Lord George Cavendish, Lord Ilartington’s uncle, will not contest the representation of North Derbyshire ...

... expected to descend the intriguers in showers. ! Your Whig contemporary, it is understood, is willing to swallow his antipathy to the • senior member ' in order to serve the interest or neeesj sities f the Whig leader. 111 word, there appears In- a wonderful ...

... 7.30 p.m. Ux Sunday.—London, Edinburgh, and all parts of the Kingdom (to Callers), from 10.30 to 11 a.m. POSTAGE The folio whig is the t requisite to affixed to ■_ newspaper, not exceeding mentioned countries:— Africa (West Coast),ld Holland, Id Australia ...

... sides have been pushed on from behind. There is a Court and a Country party still, only their leaders have changed sides. The Whigs are now the head of the Country party, and the Conservatives of the Court party. If the whole truth were known, there is probably ...

... walking gentlemen in that high-life comedy, the Civil Service. A Conservative Government has basely descended “to dish the Whigs'' a second time, and to practise retrenchment on a scale which makes Baxter and Lowe names ever abhorred in Whitehall. Not ...

... system seemed likely to receive a new and startling illustration the other night in Dr Cameron’s Habitual Drunkards Bill. Whigs and Tories alike in considerable numbers were prepared to vote for a measure which, considering the latitude of the adjective ...