... origin it was not only a finance company, bot Whig finance company. It was founded by a Whig Government because it was in desperate want of money, and supported by the “City,” because the “City” was Whig. Very briefly, the story was this. The Government ...

... doubtless, who can yet hardly recognise the fact that victory at length is about to smile upon their banners, and that the great Whig-Radical Confederacy under which they have groaned so long is entirely routed. It must borne in mind, however, that in politics ...

... Estimates, and that because they were i)eace-at-any price men. Their recommendations had only to» great weight with tin- weak Whig Government of the day, whiih they frightened their platform oratory, the mis hievous results of an agitation which was in rea’ity ...

... Inn, and was attended by about gentlemen. Mr Mathew Wilson, Eshtoif occupied the chair, and was supported by the fed' owhig, whig, Miiongst : —Mr Win. Roundell, Gledston ; Ke.' E. Morris, ( arlton : J. B. Dewhurst, Skipton; T. H. Ingham, Marton House; ...

... Frederick lias been brought up, and the traditions of the historical family to which he belongs can have nothing in common. The old Whig party is for all practical purposes defunct, and its connection with modern Liberalism is an anomaly. More and more the Whiggism ...