... system in the defence of the coast and coaling-stations. What an unhappy department the War Office is 1 It is a cockshy for Whig and Tory, soldier, civilian, sailor, and tailor. Colonel Duncan accused the War Office—the child of Saturn attacking its parent—of ...

... forcing the hands of°the Dons”) ; “The Coming Session” powerful resume’ of the arguments for a liberal Union of tho Con and Whigs); and Inst but not least, for it first in order in the number, satisfying and judicious account of Lord Shaftesbury’s Life ...

... keen faculty of observation and incisive stylo writing did not forsake him in these last years of his journal; still, from his Whig standpoint, find him criticising, with asperity at times, his political opponents, but ever ready to recognise their virtues ...

... the most glorious in the history of England. As soldiers they had nothing to do with politics. It was nothing to them whether Whig or Tory Government was in power. Their first duty was to the Queen, the fiftieth anniversary of whose reign they that day ...