... THE GENESIS WHIG AND TORY. After the Restoration there sprang into existence perhaps the two most remarkable party names that the world has ever seen, not only for their absolute inanity, but also for their persistence and practical importance. These ...

... effective worker in a great cause. Long after even American historians of eminence in our time have abandoned most of the old Whig theories of the Revolution, and most of the hysterical paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence, he comes forward to restate ...

... MARKABLE ELECTION CONTEST SIXTY YEARS A The contest for Canterba ry was of a very ordwi and the Hon. R. Wateon, the Whig members, were supposed to be certain of their re-election, and no contest was ex Suddenly there ap) an address, from the Rose Inn ...

... Denholm Free Church, in which he took a great interest. In politics he inherited trom his father a great admiration for the old Whig principles, although he never took a very active public part, he was always a staunch supporter of the Liberal party. His pleasant ...

... President or Chairman. brings me into contact with a body of active business beings, money-making citizens of Edinburgh, chietly Whigs, by the way, whose sentiments and proceedings amuse me. The stock is rather low in the market.” It was either at this time ...

... interview with Her Majesty, and thought that everything had been settled. It was but reasonable that the great ladies of the Whig party, who were in close and constant intercourse with Her Majesty, and who might be supposed to influence her, should not ...

... movement. The Mayor of Berwick says there i«j something radically wrong in the Tweed Acts ; they are respected neither by Whig, Tory, nor Radical. Mr Macgregor Henderson will give hie popular entertainment on Scottish Song and Story in Berwickshire ...

... Stanley, was a rising member of the Whig party in the House of Commons. His father, though originally a Whig aud a member of Whig Administrations, had by this time quitted that party for ever. Taking alarm at the Whig designs against the Irish Church, he ...

... party strife inseparable from the hustings, it is a real relief to that when the purely needs of the community are at stake, Whig and Tory, Unionist and Radical, can agree to pass through the Commons such a measure as the Factories Act. From a party point ...

... is not for want of capacity. No-Popery and Ritualism cannot be tackled-Jacob 's in the front there; but why not dish the Whigs and take the Union question? Our friends the Frees and L-P.s are making for a huge on slaiight on the Establishment. Now if ...

... prese the incidence of guise of a mer e adjustment of rating. There are even men who describe themse Ives as old-fashioned Whigs, who would for the taxation of ground values. vote heartily There are f ew subjects more abstruse and difficult than the incid ...

... take exception to the Parish Councils Bill. Tt did not give enough; did uot give in the right way ; it was a concession the Whigs. The Radical alarums were sounded, and presently the innocent-looking, 4i non-contentious bill became a very Hector's body ...