... indignation whenever a Catholic majority serves them after the fashion they are themselves so fond of employing. As for the Whig element in the Corporation, their conduct was simply inspired by the desire to stand well with the authorities. It is quite ...

... Haddingtonshire by Lord Wemyss's death, the present peer having represented that constituency for many years, originally as a Whig, but of late as an independent Conservative. It is not, however, probable that any change will take place in the political ...

... orporation withdrew in a body from all participation in the proceedings ; so did all those who are generally classed as mete Whigs, with the exception of the most honoured man amongst them, Alderman Campbell, who has twice already served as Lord Mayor, ...

... that of British Commissioner in Eastern Roumelia. He has long been regarded as one of the most rising men in the ranks of the Whig aristocracy. Lord Enfield is obliged, at the same time, to leave the India Office in consequence of the appointment of Lord ...

... 87th Regiment. Under the guardianship of Lord Holland and in the atmosphere of Illiglanibliouse he was early trained in those Whig principles now shawl extinct, with which the name of FitzTatrick has always beenintimately connected. Ile abided consistently ...

... modern history of Ireland, the secession by which the marvellous authority of O'Connell was overthrown, his compact with the Whigs, the great famine, and, for the first time, the secret history, minutes of council, and private correspondence connected with ...

... finds so marked a characteristic of politicians of other schools, is equally tenable, may perhaps be questioned. Whilst Whigs, Conservatives, and moderate Liberals are actuated by the paltry ambition of appending Right Honourable to their names ...

... of coalition between Whigs and Radicals, with the result of what he deemed a zig-zag policy, as evidenced in the Government treatment of the Irish, South African, and Egyptian questions. The Radicals pull one way, and the Whigs the other, on these points ...

... century ago, when many Tories in England were quite prepared to believe anything bad, no matter how outrageous, of English Whigs. People may now drift into a similar state of mind and temper with reference to the Irish people. And it will not take much ...

... from the fall of 13olingbruke to the rise of Liverpool there were not half-a-dozen statesmen who can be labelled as distinctly Whig or distinctly Tory in principle. The free and independent elector was the omphalus of the constitution ; but it was understood ...

... wanted.—lf. A. ',ROWSE, 34, Ludgatehill, London. E.C. NINETEENTH CENTURY For May, 1883, price 2s. 6d. Desultory Reflections of a Whig, By the Right Hon. Earl Cowper. Questions of the Day in India. By Sir Julian Gold. smid. The Man of the Future. By F. Kay Robinson ...

... NINETEENTH CENTURY. T HE May Ninckenth Century opens with a paper by (4.) Lord Cowper, entitled Desultory Reflections of a Whig, which, modest and unpretending as it is, is extremely well worth reading, for it is characterised throughout by candour, ...