... a parable of the day, describing the Whigs in the worst colours possible, the Duke of Guise standing for the Duke of Monmouth. In 1683 appeared City Politics, in which Crowne made a violent attack upon the Whigs. The miserable hypocrite,. Titus Oates ...

... the prevailing feeling, both among the moderate Whigs and the great mass of the Tories. Sir Henry Hardinge told Sir James Graham that he supposed we should all go out the next morning. Many of the Whigs thought it impossible the Government could succeed ...

... rendered their union a seeming impossibility. Clancarty is a Papist and a devoted follower of King James; the Spencers are Whigs and enthusiastic supporters of King William. Clancarty has fought for his sovereign at the Battle of the Boyne, and has served ...

... all our great measures encountered objections From the Liberal party-split into four sections: The Rump of Gladstonians, the Whigs with their fads, Persistent Home Rulers, and resolute Rads. Sure such trouble no Premier ere met with before, For instead ...

... Future of the Whig Party. It is natural that this article should have received much attention from the majority of our contemporaries, for it is not only couched in studied terms, but it is manifestly a set panegyric and revindication of thi Whigs. The defeat ...

... The author is evidently no admirer of the Whig policy he portrays, but in the present work he strives, with no mean degree of success, to maintain an impartial attitude. In all proba- bility no friend of the Whigs could have given us so truthful a delineation ...

... principles to expediency. It has been a fashion with shallow Liberals ever since the Reform Act to sneer at the Whigs as an obsolete Party. The Whigs, indeed, have never adopted the modern doctrine that legislation is to be dictated by public opinion; and in ...

... secretary to the Queen, was put forward in the Whig interest, he with- drew his letter of recommendation, and left Mr. Disraeli to fight his own battle. Mr. Disraeli thus fought High Wycombe against the Whig interest, and received the support of the few ...

... at that time seriously endangered by the intrigues of the Canningites, the Whigs, and the High Tories. The first regarded him as the deadly enemy of their lost leader; the Whigs were openly opposed to him; and the High Tories could not forgive him for ...

... as in some degree preserving Mr. Disraeli's political consistency, that he avowed himself a deter- mined opponent of the Whigs, and tried to carry the seat by a combination of the Radicals of the borough with the Tories. His agent was a Tory attorney ...

... which in the old days used to present us four times a year with the spectacle of the grand old Tory forces and the young Whigs in battle array. More of that sort of strife is now carried on from day to day, and less is reserved for quarterly field-days ...

... course taken by England. Before the close of 1807 the Whigs were succeeded by a Tory Government, which about the end of that year issued other Orders in Council every whit as objectionable as the Whig Order of January. * *h * * * * The Orders, coupled with ...