... 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 ...

... acrimonious-- not without reason. U Connell had at that time just entered upon his notorious alliance with the Whigs in spite of the fact that the Whigs had heretofore treated him as one almost out of the pale ot civilisation, had denounced him as a traitor ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... voracious child. He commenced his education in a boarding school at Walthamstow, under the direction of Mr. Macfarlan, one of the Whig historians of the reign of George III., a school which nearly a generation later retained its existence and repute. He thus ...

... all they hold precious and dear. The Weekly News looks 011 the visit as a bid for Irish support, and says bluntly If the Whigs see their goal before them so also do we see ours. If they hope for our help in anything our terms are easily known. The Irish ...

... might know them. The English Government had learned by this time to be mortally in dread of tins Irish party. The Northern Whig reports a split among the Belfast Home Rulers 011 the question of continuing Mr. Butt as leader, or appointing Mr. Mitchell ...

... the labours of the judges. There is no desire on the part of the public for this cheese-paring tendency, but it has been a Whig tradition for years past that retrenchment was a sure road to popularity, and hence all the shabby attempts to save which rendered ...

... questions he will support the Conservative Party, feeling assured that any Government is better for Ireland than that of Whigs, Secularists, and the right hon. member for Greenwich. He will strenuously oppose Sunday and early closing of public-bouses ...

... , he thinks, has shown that if it is wanted to rescue a seat from a Tory, a Radical is more likely to be successful than a Whig. In The Musical Culture of the Day, Mr. H. H. Statham seeks to inquire whether the passion for music in modern English society ...

... 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 ...

... expected, and this is how he did it In the spring of that year some players dared to make fun of that solemnly great and awful Whig Prime Minister by per sonating him upon the stage in a play called The Historical Register of 1736, just as they have this ...