... Tories began to call themselves Conservatives and the Whigs to describe themselves as Liberals, is a matter of no real importance or historical valac. A Whig called by any other name, a blasted 'Whig' is all the same, is as true to-day as in 1830. The ...

... other method will Lord Lome get over the fact that his father and he, who repre- sent the great Whig house of Argyll, which was Whig in the brave old days when Whig meant Radical, are cordial and even violent supporters of the party now installed in power ...

... an's Magazine on the Name of Political Parties. The word Whig is of Scotch origin, but the real meaning is lost in obscurity. says the writer. On turning to Brewer I find that he derives Whig from Whir/gam more, a corruption of Uf/ham more (pack saddle ...

... easily understood. Probably if her politics were to be defined at the present moment she might be classed as a Whig-Unionist. She began as a Whig under Lord Melbourne, to whom she was infinitely indebted for political tuition and train- ing. She remained ...

... Cork, but that a series of petitions throughout Ireland will result in the unseating of the men known as Anti. Parnellites, or Whig candidates. ...

... RUMOURED APPOINTMENT FOR MR SEXTON. The Dublin Independent says — A fresh element of disturbance in the camp of the Irish Whig party is the rumoured acceptance by Sexton of the Resident Commissionership ot the National Board of Education, about to be ...

... of the devolution Whigs whom he so highly lauds. Mr LECKY in like manner is a Whig and a Unionist, whilst in all probability he will sit behind Lord SALISBURY and will vote against the very political principles for which the Whigs of two centuries and ...

... Munday's Viridine, the marvellous corn core. You should never travel without-It, In bottles. Is pest free, J- Mnndny, Cbemis'WHig'h-street, Cardiff ...

... 1840—Severe strictures were passed on the Tory Press for affecting to believe that the attempt of Oxford on the Queen a mere Whig trick to secure the Ministry in office. 1848—Joseph Hume advanced a resolution in the Commons to the effect that the House ...

... G. Osborne Morgan, threatened to turn t. Government out of office. Havin pronoun08Ó. this threat, the leader of the Welsh Whigs left the House to confer with his colleagues. But a,- the division they were all back in their placet voting as meekly as ...

... NEW GOVERNMENT APPOINT- MENTS. MR T. W. RUSSELL SATISFIED. The Belfast Northern Whig states authori- tatively that Mr T. W. Russell, having re- ceived satisfactory assurances from the Govern. ment that a Land Bill for Ireland on Liberal lines will be ...

... diplomacy for politics, and sat as the Whig member for bouth Durham from 1841 to 1859, when he was ^5™ for Hastings. After his accession to the duchy he ceased to take much interest in politics, but, like most old Whigs, he turned Unionist. Of late years ...