THEATRES

... vehicle for political satire, and, readapting it in 1717 under the namne of The NYoiy/uror, won at once the favour of the Whigs and the hatred of the Jacobite party. Half a century later, how. ever, a change had come over the spirit of parties. The satirical ...

CRYSTAL PALACE

... expressed the determination ot a not over scrupulous person of universalfamre to be the Vicar of Bray, Sir, and to be Tory, Whig, Protestant, Papist, or anything else in order to retain that enviabie position. Mr Frank Ccjli was heard to advantage in ...

Published: Sunday 03 August 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 545 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CURRENT LITERATURE

... right place as a Liberal in saying that a thoroughgoing Liberal of the present day is a Whig of the type of Fox; though he does gross inj ustice 'to. th-e *mere Whigs, as he calls them, of the ?? by naying that they are as treo Tories as Lord Liver- Vool ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... cirde traced by lbs great whig or Tory alliances. To- day the people g'ar to share power; the men of the pavement want to bo more than mnere steps upn which others may to office Slimb. A national party claim to supereede a Whig, a Tor, or a shoddy laberal ...

DRAMA

... modifications, both plays are indebted for their most prominent characters and leading situations. Adapted by Cibber to flatter the Whig antipathy to tho Catholic and Jacobite party of 177; .WT NoeVuror kept possession 'of 'thq stage as long as the political allusions ...

Magazines

... leading article in Fraser appears to be written for the purpose of inducing the Orangemen to desert the Tories and join the Whigs. Though -he prints the paper, Mr. Froude in a note advises the Orange. men to do nothing of the kind so long as English Liberalism ...

COURT AND FASHION

... was transferred to the Cltief Secretaryship forIreland. During his offichal life he sat for Drogheda and Canterbury in the Whig interest, was Vice-Lieutenant of Ieath, created a Peer in 1866, was twice married, leaves issue and heir, James Gustavus Mlerdyth ...

Mr and Mrs GEORGE OWEN at Belfast

... study. The general company were well up in their parts; and the interest ii the piece was not allowed to flag from first to ?? Whig, February 4th. Mr and Mrs George Owen, well-known popular artists, began an engagement at the Theatre Royal Ist night. No one ...

Published: Sunday 16 February 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1157 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... account of THF ORTGIN OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND. It was founeed by a Whig Government because it was in deeporate want of money, and supported by the City because the City was Whig. Very briefly, tte story was ?? Government of Charles It (nuder the ...

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE

... In, make-up alone it deserves the highest praise, for Mr. TIighton is ose of the few actors who takes speial care with his whigs to get them so -perfect, and to wear them so well, that the illusion is always complete. As the scheming, artful, heartless ...

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... Increasing. Ifis imoparsonation of King Lear is a splendid performance, and we doubt net the house to-night will e ?? Theo horthern Whig, January 7th, 1873. Last night Barry Sullivan appeared as the Gamester. The house was filled, and in the upper boxes, the pit ...

Published: Sunday 26 January 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1815 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE MINOR WORKS OF GEORGE GROTE.*

... and consequently what results might be expected from improved processes. The scheme of class representation proposed by the Whig reviewer at that time, and acutely criticised by Grote, is not without analogy to other more recent suggestions. Grote argued ...