... that the late leader of the Welsh Nationalists was, while at Oxford, a member, not of the Radical Club the Russell but of the Whig institution of that nature the Palmerston. This is explicable only on the assumption that, though young Ellis at this stage ...

... save his hero from absolute condemnation, and as the great Doctor, in his Parliamentary reports, always managed to let the Whig dogs have the worst of it, so the detractors of the great Duke are invariably directed to take their seats fur ther towards ...

... election, an effort was made by the Whig part of the Corporation to choose a Liberal member, none having been returned since Winstanley in 1741. Although the Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Stamford, and the county Whig families were powerful allies in the ...

... AA'as putting up a grand place, folks did say, to get ready for the honours that had been as good as promised him, Avhen the Whigs came into porver but things turned out badly for the poor man as you shall hear, and by tho time the Tories got turned out ...

... brilliant, profoundly interesting, he was yet almost incapable of even copying correctly from his authorities. Macaulay was a Whig to his sturdy hack- bone, and the Tories had but a poor time with him. Even Freeman stands charged with obstructing the ground ...

... business of John Almon, a publisher, whose shop opposite the Burlington Arcade was, in those days, a frequent resort of the Whig Party. Almon used to publish Collins' Peerage of England,' as well as Peerages of Scotland and Ireland. Debrett continued to ...

... marched them to the King. All bruised and bandaged then they went The 'Possum's noble tail was bent The Goose had sprained a whig. And when, with many a grievous moan, They stood before the Dumpling's throne, They were a sorry sight And when the Dumpling ...

... was centred in the contest for the Speakership, Manners-Sutton, the old Speaker, representing the Tories, and Abercombie the Whigs. Nero fiddled while Rome was burning, and while the contest for the Speakership was taking place the annual re-union at Aylesbury ...

... ian, Civis-Romanus-stim sort of attitude of the modern Jingo. At the Table he was a Radical, but in Punch's pages he was a Whig, and not a little responsible for the steady support, or at least the special indulgence, with which our Comic Philosopher ...

... river, you may bike on lovely roads where the cry of the wild grouse suddenly rising from the moor, or the whirr of a plover's whig, alone disturbs the mystic silence. The welcome is more hearty, the life more free and varied, the temper of the guests more ...

... not. Long before he died, in 1878, the old Whig creed which he personi fied was dead and forgotten. The Administration of 1868 was a long-lived one but before it was out of office the old leader of the Whig party had bitter reason to regret having surrendered ...

... like a request that he would use his personal influence to make the Whigs obedient to their leader, and it was then that His Majesty said The Constitution makes me guard of the coach, Whig or Tory but you, Mel bourne, are coachman, and you want me to take ...