... The katy-did (PlataphyUum concavum).—A pale green insect of the grasshopper famUy. The males, by means of membranes in their whig-covers, make a pecutiar harsh sound, nearly articulate, ?? the com- bination katy-did.'' The tree-frog.—A frog of the genus ...

... was an ardent volunteer, and entered Parlia- ment under the auspices of his step-grandfather. Lord Palmerston ; he became a Whig of the Whi«s He held for many years undisturbed possession of the* minority seat in Hertfordshire, and hi.s ultimate defeat ...

... measure. Lord John Russell was called in on the resignation of Peel, but he was too weak to form a Government, and the glorious Whig party suffered themselves to be forever reviled for losing tlie chance of passing a measure, which they were supposed to stake ...

... patriotic action, but be appealed to the force of Unionism as being based on the negation of party. (Hear, hear.) Tories, Whigs, Liberals, and Radicals had united to meet a com- mon enemy, men had disdaint and become indifferent to the power, the patronage ...

... turned-back cuffs of silk to match tbe collar and straight reversof the jacket. A. aot t high-crowned bat of the cloth, with tha whig feathers of the pea-fowl thrust through the loops of silk wbkfa trim it 'orms an appropriate headgear with noli agownfc ...

... forwards. Dumbarton i Tate, goal ; Hunter and Stewart, backs ; Keir, Dewar, and McMillan, half-backs ; W. Robertson and Low, right whig; Jamieson, centre; Bell and Aitken, left wing, forwards. Mr. J. N. Boag, Paitick Thistle, referee. ENGLISH CUP COMPETITION ...

... and a keen appreciation of the humorous. An immense fund of good stories, many of them in- herited by tradition from the old Whig society to which his family belonged, has disappeared with him. The public interest attaching to Mr.Cowper's death is that ...

... is-rotten, its doctrines effete, its leaders and professors ?? behind the age. And what he thinks of the Tories he thinks of the Whigs or Liberals. He believes that it is all up with both 1 -parties ; that the era of Democracy has begun the forces of which ...

... and Lord Hartington were intro- duced into the Cabinet by Lord Russell in the autumn of 1866. The veteran chief of the old Whig party must have felt natural satisfaction in providing himself on the eve of liis retirement with a probable successor in the ...

... not the one thing seeded , they were not Reform of Parliament. Yet, clamorous as he was for Reform, he never forgave the Whigs for adopting the cause ; for, when it became a national question, it passed beyond bis control, and no longer served to minister ...

... member of it to be a Conservative more than a Liberal. Neither its articles, its creeds, nor its formulas know anything of Whig or Tory. Ita individual members whether they be clergymen or laymen have the weaknesses and failings of their kind. From amongst ...

... history was that the ancient cofistitutions ef England, in which the king and the yswple ?? bath free, was subverted by tbe Whig snd Tory families, and replaced by an oligarchy on the old Venetian model. The Tory party for him was always the party of Bo|jng- ...