... that in course of time, and i not of a particularly long time, the * emancipation of Lord Rosebery may mean the revival of the Whig party in Scotland, if not e on the other side of the Border as ivell. It is y not good for man to be alone; so we learn 0 on ...

... reign was the true period of the Whig merchant ascendancy in Edinburgh. For old Adam was not only the champion of Whig principles, but the representative of the Whig merchants as a social class. Besides, although the Whigs and the Radicals had some principles ...

... means or other depriving him of his eternal and obnoxious jour. That was because on Sunday we had de. livered to us a weekly Whig paper. I used to read it surreptitiously, and to gloat over the leading articles, in which the Independent Liberals, as they ...

... recent years been adopted in several of our Australian colonies. There bad been a considerable amount of reversion to Whig ideals. ' The Whigs who went over about 1885, and bad ! { become the least advanced members of the pre- sent Cabinet, had unfortunately ...

... the long inn- 1 ings of the Whig party to a close. George mI. had the ambition of restoring the Royal pre- rogative and the personal rule of the monarch.i Hffis- first act of stateeraft was naturally the a ejection of the Whigs-the party-that stood for a ...

... explained this by sayina that his lordship neutralised all the good ?? had done. A third protested that he represented the Whig element in the Cabinet, and the declaration that henceforth the partV should treat only with the Government was received with ...

... never rose, and perhaps did not wisl to rise, 5i into the front rank. He was a Whig of the old . scisool, the last surviving relic in public life at alt i events of the Whig party as it was in its latter days, wher led by hereditary statesmen sreeped irt ...

... mouse or the upturned daisy, while the Forty-Five, though so recent, had Do memories for him. Inspired by the tune of ALea, Whigs, aiva, he is tempted to singe Our cad decay in Church and State Sureosser, ne, direinnog; The Wh,:- came o'er u for a curse ...

... of the suns, the word diploma- tist has changed its meaning almost as decidedly and frequently as the, word Whig. Once on a day Whig meant a rather terrible person who preferred revolutionary to constitutional methods of, doing political business ...

... t the Liberal party had been saved inr office and that the Homne Rule Bill had been saved alone by the support of tha Irih Whig s, and that the Parnellites had done all in their p)ow'er to.. wresk the Liberal party. That statement wvas so absolutely false ...

... elflarts ie; favtur of the amnesty of all Irirh politi- cal prisoners, And that we emphatically doneunce the action of tie Whig Feaderation brareaecs of the esn-called National Leatue fer not giving us the opportunity of tnkiogc part in any dlminontratistt ...

... to double the Indepen- dent representation in Parliament, and if they did thee could make it very hot for either Tories or Whigs. (Applause.) TMr A. J. REnTSFr said that allusion had been made to the difference between Balfourism and Morleyism. They were ...