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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 ...

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 ...

POETRY

... Thou ouly, on1tironed upon Row, inspixcst our ?? and Odygs- eye now. Once Wvhig suffered Tory as brother, And Toty Was ?? with Whig; Now eavjch side addressee the other As 1Pig. Now Senators qihujion tenter. hooks howf to shout beat to be heard; And tlinr's ...

UNSWORTH AND SILVER-TONGUED WROE

... of the county. Warden Wroe, the Rev. William Assheton, rector of Prestwich, and the Rev. Thomas Gipps, rector of Bury (all Whig Churchmen), were appointed by William Hulmne, of Huhnc, to nominate his ex- hibitioners to Brasenose College, Oxford, and I ...

ACTION AGAINST A THEATRICAL MANAGER

... Addison took snuff, and which in later years became the fashionable resort of Patricians, wits, and fops-was redecorated, its Whig rival Brooks's, the sceno of Charles James Fox's mad gambling freaks, should follow the lead. Lrena FROM MRs. G&SnsOYSx. -A ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... offices of lesser importance that trouble arose, and still more in connection with the work of reconciling the rival claims of Whigs and Radicals. The latter, as they had been mainly instrumental in winning the victory, looked for a share of the spoil, and ...

MAGAZINES FOR JANUARY

... th-'-Svri2 it. . is to La- fo~und in a high t.. on hath2 sides, rather ican to) a.. a fof tufts as to xrpriatown,'s. Z. - 'Whig Ministers of 1339. in sus%'tmog aa~z i young Queen by their reaumnatoun of tYI- .:i; decision bo'th as statesmen nun a, n- ...

LITERARY NOTES, NEWS, AND ECHOES

... epitheto a Iet of vague abuse. The succession of political terms used in this sial I~js very curious. At one time of course Whig was an epithet of and ar abuse. In my own younger days I Radical had succeeded to the post; bids 'lw that Radical is beginning ...

DECEMBER MAGAZINES

... subject un-ier discussion is, of course, Homee Rule, and tbes qoestion is raised whether the Tories will seek to ?? dish ?? Whigs ir this matter. It seems to be acinitted that thev have gone too far to do anything of tlse klad, but we have the opinion ...

THREE CENTURIES OF CAMBRIDGE WIT.*

... King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories know no argument but force: With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but algument. Had the prize which Sir Thomas founded never produced anything less terse and pointed than this ...

A FRIENDLY GOSSIP

... Jaeobins, who, under the t age pretence of Radical reform, only want t6 bring about img Commuhism. I would advise, as Old Whig. ioea, avoidance of them. Yours truly, AN OLD CONSERVATIVE. Exeter, March 12th, 1889. SOCIETY GOSSIP. as ity (From Troth ...