... meaning. More than forty years ago an acute and disinterested observer declared that Stanley was a Tory, that Wessell was a Whig, and that Peel was a fittest. If the analogies of Catholic Emancipation and Free Trade are trustworthy guides, Peel would sow ...

... had from the mouth Russell. In the session of 1846, when Sir Robert eel had proposed the repeal of the Corn Law, a meeting Whig Peers was held Lansdowne House, Lord Russell (then Lord John) being present. One spoke after another favour of throwing out ...

... chaplain, growled out the party addressed, in tones which might have become the condition of a dying bear if the gentleman is a whig, he may please himself with his own mummery. My faith neither in word nor writ, but iv barley bread and brown ale. Mabel ...

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

... purposes by public repetition of what is untrue or the idle gossip some unoccupied busybody. Let us all, Radical, Liberal, Whig, Conservative, Tory, or by whatever name we called, and particularly those who by position education are leaders of their fellows ...

... nature on large scale, by so bald a narrative ? Why, what does it amount to, after all, but that a Tory Laird dined with a Whig lawyer no very uncommon matter, especially aa you state Mr. Herries to have lost the estate, though retaining the designation ...

... Fielding said to my father, that he could never trace a rogue beyond the Briggend of Dumfries—think that the distinctions of Whig and Tory, Papist and Protestant, still keep that country in a looae and comparatively lawless state —think of all thia my dearest ...

... true of that party now as it was than.•that— • • - - {ts'br'ee tm floWeri alighting new their hem ; o,'irtitimitottiptades, Whigs are dumb. They can be talkative enough, and promising' enough at: public meetings, and in lectures such as that delivered ...

... had held office in all Mr. Glad-tone's Ministries, down ro the short-lived Government of 1886, when he was on« of the few Whigs, by tradition, who adopted Home Rule. Mr. Gladstone has been many times a visitor as Frognal. where Lord Sydney spent the greater ...

... with commissions of lieutenancy, (and of lunacy, for wTat I ken,) to put down a' the Whig, and Covenanters in the country. Wild wark they made of it; for the Whigs were lour as the Cavaliers were fierce, and it was which should tire the other. Redgauntlet ...

... anointment commenced in 1828, when he was appointed Groom.in-IVaiting to George IV., and be was attached to the Holfsehold in every Whig or Liberal Administration after he became a Peer. Lord Sydney was Lord Chamberlain for eleven years altogether, and Lord Steward ...

... Parliament having taken place, who ou id to represent his native county in the ouniiug riruKhle fur Itelerre as the dashing young Whig Thu cual-pits had to he worked apses, I promise you, to keep full the purse that had each amino to, it ; uud they were not ...