... The quaint old dress, the grand old style, The mots, the racy stories; The wine, the dice, the wit, the bile- The hate of Whigs and Tories. Mr. Kemble is an admirable Snarl, playing the part with a will, and delivering the lecture on the supposed portrait ...

... undoubtedly the concluding one, enti- tled Plain Whig Principles. In it the programme of the Liberal Party is, for the first time since Mr. Glad- stone's defeat in 1874, definitely propounded by the Whig official organ. It has long been apparent to dispas- ...

... Wharncliffe. When the Whig law officers pronounced the intended mass meetings, towards the end of November, to be illegal, and when Mr. Wakley at last restrained the London mob which he had previously excited, the air began to clear, and the Whig Ministers put ...

... refused judicial Office from the Whigs, but he had a better income from the Rint, and he had a splwre of labour which better satisfied him than the dull administration of the law. But he was too thick with the Whigs to be a really trusted leader ...

... the number of Whig statesmen in the Ministry, ultimately perceives that the measures of the Cabinet have been dictated, not by the Whigs, but by the Radicals, and are dangerous precisely in proportion to their departure from sound Whig principles, a departure ...

... the late George Hudson, believes in his future ; becomes private secretary to a Whig Minister, gets into Parliament through one of those nice little boroughs which the Whigs in 1832 SO con- veniently spared for their own purposes; makes a mark in the House ...

... Westminnster -Review has a most noteworthy article on East India Currency and Exchange, and an equally good review from the Whig standpoint of India and, our Colonial Empire, some'points of which our ?? will find more wholesome than pleasant reading ...

... But it probably occurred to more than one reader that the real trial of the annalist's powers was to come. The struggles of Whigs and Tories before the Reform Bill are, as it were, things before the Flood, capable of being handled without undue excitement ...

... politician under all his jesting was Father Prout, a staunch Tory, hating the ruffianly revolution of France and all its Whig imitations, and also hating, curious to observe, his distinguished countryman, Daniel O'Connell, with a peculiar zest of d ...

... mar than increase any argumentative force even Mr. Morley may suppose the scant review to contain. Both Conservatives and Whigs will think twice before deferring to an authority which menaces them with penalties for daring to differ from the advanced ...

... find Mr. Green falling into the error which supposes that the famous Duke of Newcastle began his official life under the first Whig Ministry of Anne, i.e. when his Grace was thirteen years old. On p. I23 we are informed that the temper of George I. was ...

... of the little troubles and interests of children than of the business of full-grown men. There was a time when intelligent Whigs used to laugh at the fancies of the sixteenth-century politicians, who made up imaginary republics and devised the uniforms ...