... , and not under the present system. On the whole, he was in favour of the Bills with some alterations. So was Mr. Lea, the Whig Unionist member for South Derry. ...

... a dream, by-the-bye, which has never ceased to haunt the midnightfanciesanddaily meditationsof allEuglishCabinets—be they Whig or Tory. Russia, on the other hand, is credited with being the chief, if not the only party who has finger in the pie. The ...

... that the Whig party in England would have lasted. He did not foresee (who could ?) all the results of the coalition of Fox and Lord North. He did not foresee (who could ?) the quarrel between Fox and Burke—the dissolution of the great Whig party by the ...

... called—were apparently very drowsy people in a political sense. Devonshire was entirely in the hands of the Whigs and the Tories, and the Whigs did not trouble much while their opponents permitted a few family traditions to be perpetuated. When, however ...

... jou have doubtless heard) visited Lausanne twice and approached me, he said, on behalf of body of men in Ireland composed of Whigs and extreme Nationalists. These men, Pigott said, thinking Parnell was ruining the country and wishing to get hold of information ...

... the ’Arries, believing they’ve heard the true brogue And real Irish humour, applaud the poor rogue. Then there is the Liberal-Whig-Tory ally, Who capers on platforms from Devon to Skye, Who fights all once under so many flags. And tears, as he thinks, the ...

... on of most people by reproducing the iilea in full. What he said amounted to this : you elect members of Parliament of the Whig type you will disgust the Irish people, and they will go into courses of violence and outrage,” Mr. Biggar stood immovable ...

... colours of Liberal and Conservative on his banners, and was elected by a majority of 258. On that occasion the junction of Whigs and Tories produced a united vote of 1,853, the Liberal vote being 1,595. In 1886 both parties polled fewer votes, but the ...

... Let me mention yet another thing. They ouce had two big party-names—Tory, Mhig. Now we gave them that name Tory ; the name Whig they were given by a people living to the North of them. Would they but remember this, it might help to make things clearer ...

... the British Monarchy,” and then the House broke out into a wild outburst of enthusiasm. Cheering loud and strong from Tory, Whig, and Radical, from Irish Nationalist, and from Scotch and English Liberals swept through the House for many minutes. It was ...

... to have held office for a single moment after the rejection of the Bill, but he was man of great hope—he believed in the old Whig doctrine that justice could be clone to Ireland from Westminster, and he wished to try again—l recollect his coming up to a ...

... that the absence of such man from the House of Commons was national loss. The seat for Dublin was of no small importance. The Whigs felt that to win it from the Tories would lie indeed triumph, and they were sanguine of success with such a candidate; but ...