... Disraeli’s «bilities as a lesder.. He wants, said Elliot, nine out of ten of the that fita man to lead aparty. Of course, the old Whig reckors birth and wealth among these, but it is no‘ a little amusing to find him adding wert of tact. ...

... an sanoyance at Hartington's affectation of contempt. “4 very commonplace representation of the jaded theme of cries Ove. “A Whig,” dul!” Which is ® second, ‘*Lord Hartington is the chief offence, I wonder, the cook assertion, based on very thet the part ...

... scarcely been home a week. Lord Holifax has still one son left. May he be spared to his father! He unites the lineage of two noted Whig families, for his grandmother was a daughter of the great Earl Grey, and the father of the Presijent of the English Church ...

... last 16 years of his lite by Sydney Smitb, who rebuilt and greatly enlarged the Reetory, and improved the grounds. Most of the Whig and nearly all the literary celebrities of the day were guests at Combe Florey when Syduey Smita lived there, and the Vale ...

... payer of income-tax and every University graduate should, as such, be fairly entitled. I am, sir, yours faithfully, AN OLD WHIG AND ...

... ries as ‘‘ Conversation Sharp.”’ Mies Kinnaird exerted a certain kindly influence over the fortunes of more than one great Whig statesman. The anecdote is told in Mr. Spencer Walpole’s “ Life of Lord John :—‘“‘ Mr. Sharp . . . was passing the winter at ...

... iU . To the Editor of the DevonatutExefer ' you kindly permit me, supplement the observations of your ' - enax and An Old Whig and lto -n .he o fie ' fl . the Radical platform that Mr. Gladstone intends to substitute for the now broken one o uie .ItfB ...

... celebrations are in hand this week, the following aneodotes may have a plaoe in City Chat. The elder Wesley had clerk, whc was Whig like his master, and a poet withal, but of very original kind. One Sunday, immediately after tht sermon, he said in audible ...

... Bill 1832. tbe name] Conservative and Liberal were unknown, t e twogrext partie> then in existence being tbe Tories and the Whigs. But in 1832, when the reformed Home of Commons met, there were many members who belonged to the Tory party who felt that tbe ...

... the Premiership. And, considering the cause of his being compelled to decline it—the opposition, that is to say, of another Whig statesman just then, perhaps, at the lowest point of unpopularity and discredit which he ever touched—it is in the highest ...

... strength to regain Ireland's freedom. I call upon my fellowcountrymen in Great Britain to ignore the convention summoned by Irish Whigs under the shadow of English influence. I call upon them to maintain the attitude of a self-respecting people; to assert tne ...

... the sort of characters of which it is composed and they would be disgusted with the name of Radical. Faithfully yours, OLD WHIG AND CONSTITUTIONALIST. Exeter, July 20, 1891. PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION. To the Editor of the Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette ...