... easily understood. Probably if her politico were to be defined at the present moment she might be classed as a Whig-Unionist. She began as a Whig under Lord Melbourne, to whom she was infinitely indebted for political tuition and training. She re- mained ...

... and they gave me a stone ; but I had a Princess to bind my wounds. Here is an anecdote illustrative of th intense hatred of Whig and Tory for each other in the old days : The first Earl of Leicester, better known as Coke of Norfolk, told my father that ...

... tolerably comprebe naive history of which the book opens. It was to Melbourne that the noble lord repaired on the fall of the Whig Ministry in 1834, and received from its inhabitants an address expressing surprise and regret at his removal from office, and ...

... father, the second Lord S'rAm.EY of ALDERLEY, was a leading member of the Whig Administration for some forty years, and his whole family was brought up in the straitest sect of the Whig religion. Of the present genera- tion Lord STANLEY takes no part in politics; ...

... between (,rewe ?? Chester was ninety i miles an hour, but this was shown to be considerably : below its full powers. o The Whig version, as related by Sydney Smith, was that Mr. Pitt was declared by the nurse to have 2 merely asked for barley-water. Now ...

... advocated^be Local Veto Bill ju;t when they were able to olamonr loud enongh to suggest that tbey repre- ,3ented votes-- He wae a whig until Mr. Chamberlain placed a jjcore advanced game. He took up the Franchise question only when Sir George Trevelyan' ;iad ...

... looked on most unfavourably by his chief. Lord Rosebery, in fact, is credited with a general desire to sweep some of the older Whigs off the Treasury Bench, and replace them with younger and, to his way of thinking, abler men. Among those men- tioned as likely ...

... was Prime Minister s during the Reform era, between 1830 and 183t. The late Earl was in early life associated with several Whig c and Liberal administrations. He was Under-secretary for the Colonies during his father's Government, then a became Under ...

... of parties in the old days before rethe electors went in for democratic ideas e and the modern system of Government. The P Whig party then consisted chiefly of the old landed Interest-of the great aristocratic houses whose pro. ) perty rested almost entirely ...

... Reform Bill of 1887), and dishing the Whigs* Something similar to this lastqaoted •■biase was used by Mr Disraeli in 18i5, in illustration of the tactics of Sir Robert Peel, who, he declared, had caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes ...

... opponents, whether they called them. selves Whigs, Liberals, or Itadic-ils, were essentially the party of a class or a section. To legislate for the benefit of one class has always been the oharac. teristic of the Whig politician, by whatever name he calls ...

... only living man who was a representative of the Whigs, and appealed to the shades of Fox and BURKE and RUSSEL. I am afraid> said Mr. ( CHAMBERLAIN, As he finished his castigation, that the last of the Whigs is still stewing in Parnellite juice, and the ...