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. ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... sbsO'1 conclusively how deep a de;t moderni En'land was to Ite Whigs; nobody doubts thavtmoderiate andcautious progre-ss within the lines of the constitution is erlsoutlyh doeirabl' That the Whigs desire this, work for tis, tod bhae ?? achieved this -and something ...

SELECTIONS AND GOSSIP

... M.P. and alderman, delivered himself of some political opin- ions. Those which dealt with the Whigs are most interesting. Mr. Collings considers the Whigs are a hindrance and a drag upon the advanced Radical party. He would rather have three Salisburys ...

EXTRACTS FROM FUNNY FOLKS

... club can't avail them now, Though beastly overbearing ; We have Affirmed, and this is how- The sacred right of swearing, THE WHIG, No, hang it all, we couldn't stand, After that IriEh bill, sirs, We. the chief owners of the land (And Churob), this bitter ...

MAD JACK HALL OF OTTERBURN

... George for the Whigs, raised the cry that the Church was in danger aud excited a spirit of disaffection through- out the realm. Riots were continually taking place in all the large towns, Dissenting meeting houses were pulled down, noted Whigs were threatened ...

MAD JACK HALL OF OTTERBURN

... Forster, a member of P erlia- ment, and a T Mr Fenwick, s ?? uat far off, the one a Whig and the other a Tory, their loud words breathing defiance a- eacl other, Queen Anne's Whig Ministry had obliged her to follow a precedent established by Wlliiam LnUd Mary ...

THE DERWENTWATER LIGHTS

... to hum, I beseech yeou. Nay, my dear Azne, Jestice Cotton is a man of strict honour, and a good man to boot, though he is a Whig replied tire earl, with a smile, and I know ho hatl a sncere friendship for me; and as to his making me his prisoner, why ...

THE DERWENTWATER LIGHTS

... of the scrape, too; but, alas, many a home will be made desolate, particularly in the north, for I fear, added the humane Whig officer, that the Government will show scant mercy to many of these mis- guided men. As for Lord Derwentwater, I have but ...

PILFERINGS FROM PUNCH

... Wit's bow is strung to slay. Uprouse ye then, my merry, merry men,. It is our op'ning day. Chorus-Uprouse ye then, &c. Both Whigs snd Rads are wide awake, Unclosed are Tory's eyes I The morning papers now will make Less room for fade and lies, Pewilder'd ...

LITERATURE

... have dons wvirh hintl?'he one esked when somebody suggested that the member fot Jineks swould have been a great gain tothe Whigs. It is miot crens fair to say that ambition alone prompted lsis somewv hat sudden conversion to Toryism soon aftet lie hid ...

LITERARY CURIOSITIES

... calling every man who opposed him, even in conversation, a tory. till at last the word tory became popular. The two term; whig and tory, came into general use as political designations about the year 1680, but they had previously, as Swift expresses ...

THE REVIEWS

... secure that end-to enter Into an alliance with the Home Rulers, and to run the County Franchise question so as to dish the Whigs-but the writer spurns the first as diecreditable, and is still too disgusted with the Disraeli Reform Act of 1868 to think ...