THE DECLINE OF THE WHIG PARTY

... lea, member for Dublin governs Ireland. The Whigs goverbl nothingd e Downing-street. The right honourable gentleman, the member fot Tamwooth, is contented with power without place or patronage, ard t rf Whigs are contented with place and patronage without ...

ON THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS

... take coiupo-lo:s, pressmen. devils, ties. What means th:s change! The suzn of ll the story's, 'onres deprest are Whies, and Whigs in p-w'r are Tories. -Newcaeste Courant, November 4, 1732. ...

THAT GRAND OLD MAN!

... couldn't ake out what it all was about- Any more than the Grand Old Man, Ho, ho ! Any mtore thaty thr Grand Old Nan. Then the Whigs took it up and moved stumping abroad, In a terrible fuss to maintain Tbst the great Manifesto was what they adored, Whilst ...

A CRY FOR A CRY

... netel ye but shout that the W'higs are oit Asre the grand gutde tian laid by ? \W'tat hinders ye raise the countrv-side With the cry that should aise it best, That tip in the tree is the wicked Tory, And has raxit the Whig fra the nest? -Now haud ye your ...

PARTY

... even after the Whigs have bolted, government by the best men , is not an abs~olute impossibility. From evil spirits and from metaphors, groaned Paul Louis, good Lord, deliver uts With those evil spirits of the Liberal party, the Whigs, it is a favourite ...

LITERATURE

... solicitous than the the Whigs for the interests of trade and commerce. To got secure the power of the Church the Occasional Conformity goe Act ws huried troughboth ouses to cusht e P5 Act washurrie throuh ?? to crsh thestel W~higs Marlborough was accused ...

LORD MELBOURNE'S LETTERS.*

... proved too strong a tempta- tion for so many of the clever young Whigs. The result was that he became a Tory Chief Secretary for Ireland and an anti-Reformer, though he drifted back to the Whigs with the Canningites, and became Home Secre- taryin Lord Grey's ...

IDEAS FROM THE REVIEWS

... science, and of a broad and simple Christianity. Air Charles M-ilnes Gaskell writes as a Whig on Whigs, of whose future I-ehas but little confidence. The Old Whigs under the new conditions of l-c y~ol;cal world, he fears, will suffer a gentle euthanasia ...

A POPULAR REVIEW OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL WORK DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA, IN TEN CHAPTERS

... the Liberal party, consisting C then mainly of Whigs, mixed with a few Radicals; C composed now of various sections of moderate Liberals, of a large body of Radicals, and a few of the nearly I extinct Whigs. t This brings us to the attempt to define the ...

THE TRANSVAAL MUDDLES

... honourable P I, says Selborne glib, I knew it was a 'db, But I called it honourable. Who cried Shamue opon it ? We, says Whig and Tory, All who care for Englanid's glory, We cried Shame upon it, Who approved it strongly ? We, cry all the Ruds, And ...

MR. GLADSTONE

... published in a few days as an Election w National Antheoif: t( Shall brave old Gladstone die, For daring to defy a The great Whig clanI t] First on the roll of fame, t] Foremost in patriot aim, He bears this doathless name- J The Grand Old Mian. ci Of ...

BUT WHAT WILL THEY SAY IN THE LORDS?

... pet of his leader and friends, Litte fondness I ween, in the looks will be seen ?? the Peers'whom its mischief offends. ies a Whig of pure breed ; he's a Peelite in creed; ,To hi jdlgiment high praise each awards; All think it must follow that what he can't ...