... political necessity :- In the session of I846, when Sir Robert Peel had proposed the repeal of the Corn Law. a meeting of Whig peers was held at Larksdowne House, Lord Russell (then Lord John) being present. One spoke after another in favour of thnowmg ...

... by Rudyard Kipling.-An article deprecating a popular aspiration of the present day, and suggestive in argument, is 1 The Whigs and Imperial Federation, by B. M.-Lieutenant-Colonel Granville Browne has an article on Granville Sharp and the Slave ...

... were regarded with suspicion and dislike even by many anti-slavery politicians. His attempt, in concert with the Conscience Whigs, to resist the annexa- tion of Texas failed comnpletely. I-le can scarcely have improved his position by his ?? conveotdion ...

... phrase, modern Englishmen, is significant. It shows that our colonists are thoroughly disgusted with the snobbish grang of Whig and Tory coercionists who are now muddling our affairs at home and abroad. When Lord Salisbury has done bullying little Portugal ...

... during seven years, and cost him, it was alleged, ioo,ooo, has been commonly imputed to the managers (the Commons) and the Whig party. Sir A. Lyall clearly shows that it was due to the Lords' reflect of duty. The whole case only occupied 148 days, and ...

... have some moderate form of Local Government- ?? instance of what we said the other day, that nowadays the only Tories are the Whigs. The remaining articles in the Review-with the exception of Sir G. Molesworth's plea for Courts of Conciliation-are of the ...

... and the writers of that time. But the story of the unholy alliance of the patriots, professing Jacobites and professed Whigs, against Walpole, and the unscrupulous lying and slandering which they adopted, strangely recall an equally unholy alliance ...

... several embassies, and was for a short time Under-Secretary of State He entered Parliament in 1701, and turned from a strong Whig to a violent Tory. Towards the close of Queen Anne's reign he was employed in important negotiations, but the death of the ...

... elegantly do nothing is the function of which they are suited, and in this they have no f superiors. IT is characteristic of the Whigs that their organ, the Edinbirgh Review, should contain a strong plea for, if not the abolition, the great diminution of the ...

... the pit from 3s. 6d. to 4s., the galleries being left unchanged at 2s, and is. The Tory papers advocated the new prices, the Whig papers the old. Long before the day of opening, Monday, Sept. 18th, 1809, the gathering storm was evident, and theatrical London ...

... Fox, and Sheridan. She cheered the orator's declining years, and to this fair paragon and reigning toast the poets of the Whig party consecrated their muse in all modesty: ' ht wishes which never were bounded before Ale here bounded by Friendship. and ...

... comes out rather more unamiably than he seems to have intended), or in the gentlemanlike fogeydom of Mr. Carteret, the Whig Nestor who knew more than any one else about the personages of whom certain Cabinets would have consisted if they had not ...