... PARLIAMENTARY NOTES, Continued from Page 3, In the House of Lords on Thnnduy a debate took place on the Anglo-German Agreement Bj)| whig came on for second reading. The #penkerg i;xclu.. the Marquis of Salisbury, the Eurl of er-,by Lora Knutsford, Earl Granville ...

... undoubted ability. Sir William Harcourt has ripened with the times. In days gone by he used defiantly to boast that he wasa Whig. As Home Secretary, he was a Saul to the Irish. But he has now got salvation, and is a very Paul, breathing fire and vengeance ...

... In 1827 Canning became Prime Minister and was anxious for many reasons to form a Coalition Cabinet to include three of the Whig leaders. “ There were conditions, however, of the compact which condemned it in Althorp’s eyes. The great questions on which ...

... coincidence, has fallen to Lord Carysfort, who for many years was Mr. Hume-Dick’s perpetual Whig opponent. In those d=ys the stalwart lord of Humewood kept the Whigs out of the second seat for the county by an ingenious combiuation of Roman Catholic and ...

... occupiers. This would not do. But Mr. ' Goschen had, as the old proverb goes, held a eandle to the devil, and the landowners, Whig and Tory l alike, determined to fleece the general public on the plea of relieving local taxation, and I regret to see ' Mr ...

... Hnnguy, ked on all sides is quite o and in its persistency, irncd. the accounts thag nrospecting the amount to have been a whig v for one day included s—unot red - legged birds like our own, fithout prejudice ¢o hares Kkilled. Apropos usinz report is ...

... cabman, reminded him of whas ...

... (cheers). In found that there we applied more nearly t 4 tion, and he had found land reform and mau manied attention. As| old Whigs had left thd bope 4 very few—han Egvpt had gone ove Liberalism bad gathg mind and muscle of a stronger, heartier, the great ...

... that Lord John Russell was a diligent student of history. Did the Tories of ‘hirty years ago believe that the 1 creed of the Whigs was a political creed fairly deducible from English history ? I think not. What ; the Tories of the present day may think on ...

... destroy the utility of the water-power, | except by saying thatit could not be put to any good purpose under a cost of £15,000, whi(-g was an utterly farcical assertion and in no way founded on fact. On the other hand an ecminent engineer had estimated the ...

... suggested the immediate retura of the money - Cm‘ your lordship,” says the cabman, grinning. why not?” rejoins the immortal Whig. “ W lerd. T thought a great nobleman like you of meant to give me the moREy as compensal the hopour of Criviog you:; 80, a ...

... supported Discaeli in asking for a committee to en_quire into the causes of ngricultural distress, and in ‘the next year out-whigged Lord John Russell by opposing his Ecclexinstical Titles Act, which prevents Roman Catholies assumine titles tsken from any ...