... the Western Morning News, and was a general utility man or boy-; then I came to the Globe in 1866, when it changed from being Whig to Tory. Yes, I 'm an ardent politician. Look at my political notebook. Here y-ou have, from '66, a record and analysis of ...

... incongruity is the soul of wit then the Anarchists must liaye some sense of humour, for a more peaceable and good-natured Whig does not exist than the Hon. Reginald B. Brett, whose charming house in Tilney Street was the scene of the latest bomb outrage ...

... enthusiasms. And he probably did not forgive the view, expressed in some quarters, which regarded his professorial appointment as a Whig job. John Stuart Blackie was the merriest-hearted man in this country, and his buoyancy had all this added quality, that it ...

... unpleasant to say about the appointment of the Duke of Norfolk to be Postmaster-General. For generations the Dukes of Norfolk were Whigs, and the present peer himself was a Liberal until he verted over the Irish question. That he should now be appointed head of ...

... of two generations. When the Edinburgh was a political power in the land, Mr. Reeve was the exponent of the policy of the Whigs, and what appeared in the pages of the Revieiv was regarded as inspired by the chiefs of the party. He was an old contributor ...

... Huddersfield to consider the organisation of the party. Strange to say, this cryptic resolution .-eems to have pacified both Whigs and Radicals. To a most delightfully indefinite letter in which Sir W. V. Harcourt wrote round the N.L.F. question in truly ...

... the greater advantage of lady-helps at elections, that is only the rhythm of life, for once it was all on the side of the Whigs. Most of the pretty women of London are indefatigable in making interest for Charles Fox, wrote Horace Walpole to Lady Ossory ...

... by showing that, so tar from being a political trimmer and renegade, lie was absolutely consistent in his devotion to the Whig Revolution and the Tory Church. He never intrigued with the Jacobites, but he would stand no measures which threatened the ...

... opera in England was started by Sir John Vanbrugh, the foundation-stone of which, named the Little Whig, in honour of Lady Sun derland, the most celebrated Whig toast and beauty of her day, was laid in 1 704 The first opera was The Triumph of Love and it ...

... Sandringham in those days, however, was very different to what it is now, and is a lasting testimony to the foresight of the great Whig Premier. The Prince and Princess took possession of the place the year following their marriage, and a general improve ment ...

... acclamations. Exactly fifty years ago, when Lord John Russell came into power, O'Connell entered into a cordial alliance with the Whigs, though his conduct was censured by the Young Ireland Party. It is proposed by certain good folks in South London to arrange ...

... American cloth and there you are It is worth mentioning, in connection with this chair, that it was owing to the fact that the Whigs had not got a candidate with sufficient experience to take the Chair, that Manners-Sutton, who was a strong- Tory, was re-elected ...