... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... in 1887. It has been said that Whigs, like poets, are born, not made. The Marquis of Lansdowne, on whom a heavy burden of responsibility lies just now, was born a Whig, and has remained a faithful adherent of the Whig leader. Although he entered the ...

... her fleet almost alone resisted Napoleon, Pitt was what Canning called him-- ''the Pilot that weathered the storm. After the Whig reaction in this century, Pitt, at the hands of Brougham and Macaulay, met with less favour, and, indeed, hardly with justice ...

... career from 1774, when he dismissed himself from Lord North's Administration on the Boston I'ort Bill and joined the Rockingham Whigs, until 1782, the year before the recognition of the independence of the United States, is inextricably woven with the story ...

... 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 ...

... , being the initial letters of the names of the great orators, Demosthenes, Cicero, Pitt, Fox. In early days, Canning had Whig tendencies, but 011 entering Parliament, in 1793, he gave his support to Pitt. His maiden speech was delivered on Jan. 31, ...

... 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 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 ...

... 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 ...