LAST NIGHT'S AMUSEMENTS

... standard on the braes o' Mar, which the audience would have liked to have heard again; Signor Ghilberti's singing of Awa', Whigs, awe', a duet on Scottish airs for pianoforte and organ, executed by Mr. W. Carter and Mr. Edwin Bending; land the performance ...

NEW BOOKS

... depicting typical sceneo of English life and character. Lord Vowleigh is the first characterintroducod, a raan who is neither a Whig nor a Tory, but who votes ' fairly straight with his party, anld who keeps sousthinai like open house at ]lowleigh Towera ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... sacrificial mys-| teries. (what would he not sacrifice for a new sensation P) -and our effete aristocratic and bureaucratic Whigs who always grasp at all the spoils of office, ead nearly aiways. desert their followers and allies .in the day of serious' ...

JONATHAN HARTOP, ESQ., OR, THE YORKSHIRE NESTOR

... throne of his fathersfail. Yet his hopes of success were not unreasonable. Towards the latter end of Queen Ante's reign, the Whig ministry were completely supplanted by the Tories; the Duke of Marl- borough was slighted, and the Duke of Ormond taken into ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... 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 ...

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... ?? 'liehboruio wae s rvi-nlly vowlictud and dilprived o' hise tsates, and blunning also the heartless indifucrenco of both Whig and Tory leatiers to his en- hiappy conidition, coals upon ail holleit mnell and woluea in 's ottiiglinmn to labour with ? ...

LITERARY AND ART GOSSIP

... nd will be published in a few days. lie'fAs A pamphlet by Major Osborne in defenc o e g the foreign policy advoceted by the Whig party Lint ,d tinring the F rench War is in the poress. bree A Bible of 'Luther will ahortly be seen at a te]]i' London bo ...

DRAMA

... fear has misled him. Perhaps the calcualtion is thiat our excitement against the Torie will throw us into the arms of the Whigs. Tht calculation ih wrong. We shall act by principle, and not through pasion, and wre shall prefer te genuine Tory to the ...

MISS GENEVIEVE WARD'S

... witnessed hbya crowded hous1,e. Nothing could be more true to nature than Miss Ward's rendition Of the fallen ?? Daily Britihi. Wh/ig. 'Therelwas an immense audience occupying the~ different classes of seats Ii thle Opera Itonse last evening, to witness the ...

Published: Sunday 16 March 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1986 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... unekilfisl. When the paper was dead, and Lord Beaconsfield had made his reputation with Vivian Grey, it became a commonplace of Whig party warfare to assert that he had been the editor and founder of the Representative, that his flippancy and follies had been ...

MUSIC

... was not a w working-man's constituency, that a gentleman was wanted whom all the moderate Wbings would support. Then the Whigs would vote for him and Dilko, and the Radicals would vote for Dilke and himu, and the party vould be united. Iretired rather ...

THE READER

... adventurous man who had been tried by debt, by exile, by imprisonment, and whose hand was against all in power, as all in power, Whig almost as much as Tory, wvere against him-Mr. Smith passes somewhat lightly. The quarrel with Wright, the coolness towards ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1879
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2696 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture