... lady with (natural) hair more than 6 ft. 9 in. in ? A member of the Reform Club (belong- ing, I take it, to one of the old Whig families) has whose hair reaches the aforesaid length, and he has asked me te try and find out whether this ia, in the language ...

... position of Comptroller Stamps and Taxes for Ireland, and 1875 wax promoted to the position of Comptroller for Scotland. was a Whig of the old school, and latterly firm and consistent Unionist, and was a member Committee when he died. ...

... his father's business, which, under his oars, gradually developed and became pretty extensive. Mr R>»llo belonged to the old Whig school politicians, but never took any active pare political affairs. . For many years was Justice tbe Peace for the city, ...

... passing of the Reform Bill had alternated between Whig and Tory. The«'then sitting member was prominent Whig leader, and the contest was unusually keen. The result was his Lordship's ousting the Whig by substantial majority the 3000 that time composing ...

... Reform Club, but with characteristic modescy he described himself as a ** newsvendor.” This was too much for the aris- tocratie Whigs who then the Ciub, and they ignomiuiously poor Mr Smith. Mr Smith, senior, who began life, it is said, as a newsboy, paid £20 ...

... later he abandoned this occupation, and devoted himself to history and politics. Renouncing his previous connection with the Whigs attached himself to the victorious Democratic party. 1838 President Van Buren appointed him Collector of Customs Boston, ana ...

... and the familiar figures which had been repre- sented ip previous Administrations were certainly not those of fossilised Whigs. Qur forecast has been justified by events, and everybody now admits that Ministers mean business. This shows the wisdom which ...

... responsible for the present disruption of the Irish party, and then read a cablegram from Mr Harrington declaring that the Whigs intended to expel every Parnellite from Parliament. He asked his hearers if favoured those men whose only crimes were that ...

... social views are completely out of harmony with the position of the men who have made modern Radicalism as those of the veriest Whig fossil on the back benches of the House of Lords. ...

... Mitchell, 8; Mr aA. Maclagan, 79; Mr W. K. Whigham (scratch), 80; Dr ‘Tem 81; Mr H. Cam bell and M. ple (scratch), Mr G. C, Whig! fi ain (scratch), Mr Mr H. F. Morrison, and Mr Legge, 84. The couree and greens were in excellent condition, and | promise ...

... Church of Scotland was a vigorous Church hundreds and bundreds of ears before Whig and To were ever heard of, and, please od, it would be a Church and hundreds of years after Whig and Tory, Liberal Unionist and Gladstonian were names which had melted away ...

... and measures, never once took any part in debate, but contented himself with sedulously supporting the Whig leaders. The Duke was one the very few Whig magnates who, after the death Lord Palme re ton, cordially accepted the leadership Mr Gladstone, for ...