... THE LAST OF THE WHIGS Lord Granville has been seriously unwell and at his age the worst might have been expected. But I am glad to say it is not time yet write his obituary, and the press which was in such indecent haste to dispose of Sir Joseph B;szalgette ...

... although she enjoys fairly robust health, it cannot forgotten that she is a septuagenarian. The Conservative whigs and the Liberal Unionist whigs have been engaged in arranging for suitable candidates for all constituencies in the Kingdom. It has had to ...

... loitering to its fall. A proposal.to lower the duty on foreign sugar in the Budget 1841 led the Tories to join issue with the Whigs, and Ministers were beaten 36 votes. A direct vote no confidence was then moved Sir Robert Peel himself, and it was carried ...

... George Halket, the schoolmaster of Crimond, upon whose head a price was set by the Duke of Cumberland for writing * Awa, Whigs, awa.’ And where save in Ayrshire is there a local poet more dear to his district than John Skinner, old Tullocbgorum,’ whose ...

... Colchester has always been regarded as Conservative stronghold, having only once or twice since the Reform Bill returned Liberal Whig. In 1888, the Conservative majority was 439, and in 1892, 61. ...

... of the Tory party. In his address he accepted the Reform Act, but opposed almost every other scheme in the programme of the Whig party. the out- standing queetion of slavery, he said—“As re| the abstract lawfulness slavery, I I acknowledge it simply importing ...

... July Mr Gladstone was again returned for Newark. Parliamonc met on the 24th of August, 1841. In the debate on the Address, the Whig Ministry was defeated by a majority of 91. In the administration formed Sir Robert Peel, Mr Gladstone accepted office at first ...

... crash, which occasioned an exclau.a ion surprise the part of his wife. But,” he said, this spoils it all. The 1 Whig, or calls himself a Whig, and has put forth rubbishing address full of allusions his resolve ] that the traditions of the place shall never ...

... literary. His temper has found clearest expression in his novels. In them there is no partisanship. Across his pages there flit Whig and Tory, Radical and Imperialist, but they are all pourtrayed with a master's clearness and imperialbability. Dbraeli was ...

... Tory an’— Fakh-sbrvant— Whig an’ Tory. I aye min’ on the Reel o* Tulloch wi* the sang; “Lat Whig an’ Tory a’ agree. Blcksmith— Jist that. Whig, an’Tory. Nae winner though I ravelled, pittin Tory first. Ye see it comes nat’ral say Whig an’ Tory ’ owin’ to ...

... great gulf fixed. At the same time, should he be able by some means to bridge that gulf and help to seat some one who, if not a Whig of. the old Jackson- Garret school, was at anyrate gentleman, be felt that, obscure indeed as, comparatively speaking, he now ...

... that the reasons for his absence may be know. The Dublin Independent says the long protracted war between the members of the Whig party over the affairs of the Freeman'* Journal has culminated in meeting which was held yesterday in the House of Commons ...