... Government, with Mr. Disraeli as leader in the Commons, who passed a bill in 1867, by the operation known as dishing the Whigs. It was in this year that Mr. Gladstone madehis famous declaration in favour of disestablishing the Irish Church. In February ...

... election, has immortalised the fact - there were practically only two colours, buff and blue, the former being monopolised by the Whigs, and the latter by the Turies. *“ There were Blue shops and Butf shops, Blue inns and Buff inns; there was a Blue aisle and ...

... leaders of the Conservative party considered they were not strong enough to carry both seats, ang made an arrangement whereby the Whig influence of the houses of Ailesbury and Lansdowne was recognised, and Lorp CrarLes BRucE was allowed unopposed to sacceed ...

... possessions as because of the unselfishness and generosity with which he administered his trust. Though head of one of the great Whig houses, he seldom took an active part in political affairs. But as a resident landlord and in other relations of life, he was ...

... long been prominently a-socinted with tbefolitinl and commercial history of Gilaszow, His father was for several years the Whig member for Dumbartonshire, and one of his nelos sat for Glasgow for 10 years, Colonel Dennis-loun, who took a very keen interest ...

... return as a Liberal Unionist, but now deducted from the strength of that party owing to his official position), and the four Whig bringing up the total of members present in the House to 665. The seats for North-east Cork and Holborn being at that moment ...

... country lane to the eommrs.—- quarter of a mile away on the hillside—the * Profundis” bei chanted by the way. Hard by the hedge whi:g divides the cemetery—a gift from Mr. Smith to the parish—from the roadway was a plain earth grave, the sides and bottom of ...

... ride to Nottingham, capture the Princess Anne, and treat with William. If that failed, then march on York, d_i?om Danby’s raw Whig militia, secore Berwick. and hold Scotland, whither Dundee could have led his clans from the hills. Lord Ailesbury, the Gentleman ...

... figure in public life when he was returned for Berwickshire at the exciting general election which followed the dismissal of the Whig Ministry by William IV. in November, 1834. His success was one of the Conservative triumphs of that election. Sir Hugh, however ...

... this as a financial operation was s 0 surprising t many imitators, witnessi: their success, indulged in nimyihr enterprises, wh.i:g ended in disaster. The original firm, however, have now announced their intention of issuing a second series on the previous ...

... Parliament with the largest majority his party has enjoyed during the present century. It falls, however, short of that which the Whigs obtained after the passing of the Reform Bill in 1832, The Liberal majority was then 800, or considerably more than two to ...

... resigned. At the general election in 1804 was defeated by Mr. Fred Wilson. Sir William Hood Walrond is the active Conservative Whi(g. He was formerly a captain in the Grenadier Guards, from which he retired in 1889, He represented East Devonshire in Parliament ...