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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BARBARA PHILPOT:

... of the second rank, right or left, according to their political creed of Whig or Tory. The former are in a mighty flutter this afternoon, for Walpole's profegee should be a Whig-and yet she's supported by her Grace of Queensbury, who flirts with Bolingbroke ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1257 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE AND POLITICS

... have stood on end if you had assured him that lis sound Whig principles were simply a form of dogged Conservatlsmr? Was he not in favour of the Reform Bill, of free trade, and ot every accepted Whig shibboleth ? It was quite true, but it was equally trie ...

THE SECOND PART OF THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS*

... received the coni- mission from some high Whig personage, whose name he for once suppresses, to make overtures to the friends of Sir Robert Peel for a Coalition, Parliamentary, if not official, with the Moderate Whigs and Lord John Russell. The latter was ...

GNEIST'S ENGLISH CONSTITUTION.*

... histories especially' in giving prominence to the monarchy and' to administrative law. Written in the days7 of Whig ascendency, by men penetrated with Whig' enthusiasm,, those histories: scarcely enabled the reader to appreciate the full significance of the medieval ...

DRAMATIC CRITICISM AS SHE IS WROTE

... sex or party does the Bouverie' street organ belong ? 'For in moderation it finds all its glory, wlzilst Tories call it Whig, and Whigs call it Tory-lbsen is not a portrayer of real life. There is no class of men who 'send ships to sea knowing them to be ...

PUBLIC MEN ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS

... attack; made upou them had appeared the Edinburgh under the title of '• Plain Whig Principles. The editor laid down a number propositions which were jt plain, and which were not Whig, and which were only conspicuous for the absence of any principle at all ...

THE NEW PRAED-McCARTHY NOVEL

... co-operate with any one who will do good to the people, be he Tory, Whig, or Radical-an absurd profession, surely; for although a Tory may do good to the people, as may a Radical, a Whig can never do good to any one except his own and his wife's relations ...