... Conservative reaction may be explained in this way. It is not only of the Whigs that the couplet is true, bees in flowers descending cease to hum, So settling into place our Whigs are dumb. Party government indeed has this use; that it keeps a ministry ...

... considerable wealth. Her fourth husband, whom she married in 1863, was Mr Chichester-Fortescue, now Lord Carhngford, the well-known Whig statesman. This gentleman was formerly member for Louth, but being put out by Mr Callan at the last general election, Mr Gladstone ...

... his mansion-house speech, was quite out of the groove, and shows that Lord Hartington is not; going to live and die an old Whig with certain fossilized opinions and a kind of gilt gingerbread Liberalism. The only other Liberal statesman of wfiom we have ...

... 1878. In Paisley the death-rate was 42*5, and in Perth 44'9 ; while in Edinburgh it was only 20*5. Mr GijAdstovr.—The Northern Whig has been j informed, on the best authority, that Mr Glad| stone's answers to certain questions published ; the Biograph were ...

... its most useful and distinguished members, Mr Raikes, to try and bring in the son of a nobleman on the shoulders of the old Whig party combined with the Ultra-Radicals, and in a speech at Chester he had put forward a strong indictment against the Government ...

... that on that question the Whigs would be found not prepared to go with the Liberal party ; but believed the Whigs were not such fools not to that there was imperative necessity for such reform. Another reform which the Whigs would have hesitation about ...

... the purchase (if necessary) a site, and for the erection or adaptation of the necessary build- I ingt. In the event of the Whig established tin; Castle, such echcme may (irorfale for the union with such hospital of the present dutiieii-saTj. 1» i» believed ...

... introducing the Solicitor-General to about 50 of the constituency, and information as to the wants of the burgh was sought from Whig and Tory alike, but not a single vote was solicited. He was confident, from what the electors of Haddington had seen and heard ...

... O Bnen, Q.C., woo bad adopted the Home Rule and.wM -p--ported by the priata. The Nabocalute deQOODoed ir (/Bnen plow and a Whig, who voald break his promise like Keofb. The Freeman'* Journal supported Ur U’Bnen, oad declared that it would soeaer see ...

... after their marriage, they bad public reception. Since thru—through all the years of her husband's arduous labours sa member of Whig administrations and of bis notable political carter—the deceased Countess baa been the devoted companion of Earl Grey, and ...

... Government—that is, if he did not oppose their warlike measures—he consented to what they did, and both political parties, Whig and Tory alike, are responsible for the frightful blunder then made in going to war. It appears, however, to be admitted that ...

... not got rid in a short time. He now tella ua that it was tho great Pitt who first proposed to reform Parliament, and that Whigs violently opposed the proposal. Now 1 find that Pitt introdfiSTtbree Reform Bills into parliament; and in not one these was ...