... prerogative and dismiss Captain Carey, as she can, from the sernice. To this Her Majesty is most decidedly opposed. The number of Whig peers in the next generation will be greatly reduced if this secession to the Conservative side goes on. The seceders are already ...

... Tichborne was wrongfully convicted and deprived of rank and of his estates, and blaming also the heartless in- difference of both Whig and Tory leaders to his unhappy condition, recommends all honest men and women in Not- tingham to labour with hand and heart ...

... punish him for his manly independence I It is curious how differently small boroughs are regarded at various times. When a 'Whig or a Conservative takes refuge in one, it is denounced as a rotten obstacle in the way of the Liberal majority. Not so when ...

... he supposed that the acting editor of the OxI, a gentleman highly skilled in his profeesion would allow aspiring diplomats, Whigs, Tories, or Radicas,1 to infringe the proper limits of journalism. The editor, indeed, edited severely, and held a somewhat ...

... abandon s the politics of his fam ly. C There were some very ominous absentees froem Lord I b Granville's dinner. three great Whig proprietors seem fol- t lowing in the steps of the two ?? Ailesbary, 5 Fitzwilliam, and fortescue. X Lord- married a charming ...

... supported by a majority of the House of Commons. We find in 1694 a ?? Lord Ecejer, a Whig Lord Admiral, and a Whig Chancellor of the Exchlequer, furnished with two Whig Secretaries of State. After the union with Scotland, in Queen Anne's time, a Scotch ...

... and had at various times been the holder of local dignities amon-st others those of Mayor of, and member for, Newcastle. The Whig Government sought to propitiate Blachett by offers of cfficial posts, but without suocess. The fate of the scoundrels whose ...

... as applic- able at certain periods to the Whigs as to modern Conservatives. The only shadow of consistency in thl attack upon Lord. Beaconsfield was the re- ?? that lie moved too swiftly when he dished the Whigs in 1867; but the charge was a direct con- ...

... Wh~iggism to an equally ipronounced Jacobitiem. But its V ery cosmopoilitan character wasa an important qualification. If W~higs robbed elbows with Jecohites so m uch the less suspicion attaching to those of the latter party who cared to frequent the ...

... on Tuesday, Sir Rainald Knightly expressed the opinion that Lord Hartington was used as 3 kind of decoy duck to catch the Whig votes. (Hear, hear.) Mr Stopford Sackville, M.P., maintained that the most important issues of the future would be fought in ...

... party will be Mr Gladstone-(hisses)- and not Lord Hartington. And Mr Gladstone, I need hardly say, does not lean upon the old Whigs for his sup- port, but always upon gentlemen like Mr Fawett and Mr Chamberlain, who, with great ability and with un- doubted ...

... discontent Wis 5gre-iter than at any previous time. when Swift caine to London in 17UQ Queen Anne Nvas ou the throne, and the Whigs in 1Beaer, but lish grievencesw^sere worsethan ever. He took up Lis place as Deanin 1713, andl neverceasetlfrom that day his ...