... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Republican. At the time when he wrote, the era of the Crimean war. England was still practically ruled by the great families, Whig or Tory, and of these Brough had the bitterest hatred, which finds a vent in his verse. A lord in his eyes is synonymous ...

... in which each party affected to find such encouraging allusions that the curtain fell amidst the unanimous applause of both Whigs and Tories' To this extent, then, the presence of political influence in criticisms of poetry is inevit- able. But what, we ...

... Sir George Trevelyan mentions, in connection with Macaulay's candidature for Leeds in 1832, the spread of a rumour that the Whig candidates were Unitarians- a report which, even if correct, would probably have done little to damage their elec- tioneering ...

... Cleaning of the bust above the girl's head with wing's of azure, one broken off ? --- Blue is the colour of the sky of dreams; Whigs show the longing to soar and be free; but one is broken. Havie you read Miss Christina Rossetti's poem ? X',:Yes. I must confess ...

... scathing indictment of English misrule by an author from the distressful country than of the picturesque prose of the whilom Whig statesman. Mr. Alfred Deakin, late Chief Secretary and Minister of Water Supply in Victoria, is about to publish, through. ...