... which a noble and high-minded Whig like Macaulay used , 1833, and that when the outset of his career he was holding an office which he highly prized as the stepping stone to an honourable ambition, But at that time the Whigs were power the State, because ...

... unpopularity of the monarch, the great Whig families engrossed all power. By the easy method of representing their opponents Jacobites, they kept their own hands all the power of the Sovereign. The ideal government of the Whigs was, as Lord Beaconsneld said, ...

... effort of Whig bigotry and intolerance, the penal laws. When the Irish Church fell, therefore, under the blows of tho versatile author of tha work on the defence of State Churches, assisted by the Whigs, it was, in fact, a happy despatch of Whig traditions ...

... Hero lies John Guy beneath the sod, Who loved his friends and feared Lis God; Also Mary, his wife. The Whigs and the Land Bile.—A meeting of Whig members of both Houses of Parliament was yesterday held at the residence Earl Fitzwilliam, with the object ...

... Parnell's paper, to-day offers to Jay* £500 to £50 that the Whigs and Tories elected in Ireland at the approaching elections wUI together not number 23 • and even money-£5OO a.side-that Whigs, Tories, and Coalitionists all together Ireland-will 18 rep ...

... Rosessidek dviu. yesday tieturdayi. Ho said the Whigs ad to-day were so persaffiteat in opposition to reform not hke Ow Whigs of old. The modern Whig; bad not that backbone and that courage srbire characterieod the Whigs of old. There had been a recent example ...

... greatest opponents of that measure the House of Commons, (a voice The landowners, cheers). Yes, the Whig landlords and the Whig landlord's son and the Whig landlord's nephew were as bitterly against a small concession to the poor Irish tenants as the bitterest ...

... support tlie Whig party. Earl Spencer let Myles Joyce be hanged, though Joyce protested with his dying breath that was innocent, and that was done to please English Whigs. He would therefore ask them not to support either Tories or Whigs, but to stand ...

... frequently been found the same lobby. Again there i 3 rumour of the formation of Whig cave behind the Government, and it is remembered that on several occasions the Whigs have readily coalesced with the Tories against the Government. Mr. Gladstone will ...

... her apprenticeship, and when about to commence her training college career, thus wrote on the subject of history;— The names Whig and Tory came into use in the reign of John. political principles which they represent are these: lst. Tory, The principles ...

... the Opposition benches to strengthen their hands. If the Whigs choose to hinder, instead of helping, that is the affair of the Whigs—and of the country, which will know how to deal with the Whigs hereafter. ...

... parties this country nCe * ir en element came to their countrymen had of Whig and Tory, and hath m& de it their second object V 8 »ay ar * the Possibly could, for it + the two—Whig or Tory— V *dopt~j Ireland. The programme was J election and re-election ...