... confessedly antiquated. t: The Spectator ' describes itself as p F Whig in politics. Well, Whigs are t. ras extinct as the mastodon, the 4 d.odo, and the blue-painted ancient Briton. t, This Whig, anachronistic print stil fi ravys about the desirability ...

... us, but almost all of them crush the hope out of Us aud leave us kcorned and humbled beggars. Well do I know that the old Whigs were the grand champions of a grand old canue (oheers), but these mcn have not the fibre, Their politics ate of a sickly hue ...

... remarks, Hle spoke of the Whigs having been absorbed into the stagnant pool of the Tory swamp, and thus it happens that a great historical party, or, shall we say, the rump of one, disappears from political history. The Whigs have played a great part in ...

... time fifty years of age, and had been, as private secretary to Lord Rockingham, one of the main supports of that nobleman's Whig Ministry. In 1774 he was returnef by his chief's interest as M.P. for the pocket borough of Malton in Yorkebire. A deputa- ...

... the committee of that Inetitution. Burke, it will be remembered, was elected a member for Bristol in 1774.. Lord- Olsre( a Whig cadidait', had exclted. the dis- pleasure of his party by his support of the policy of coercing America, and on the day after ...

... e.. VAUAL D11aOecnT-jWR: 'f. ?? '4 ha ?? . i Rner, O1 ZmIIV a7 1. ,, . l . ?? ?? , ?? ir .,aw V111ia 1 fO Vy, ki, jimor Whig frtctoit : *th OI.the O ?? tit ...

... of Thomas Chatterton and the correspondence published in the Times in our day sufficiently illustrates the truth of the Whig historian's remark, though it does not establish the relation of cause and effect which he intends. It may be opined that the ...

... questions, not of details, but of principles- el( principles which would still divide the nation into be parties, if the terms Whig and Tory were pr absolutely unknown among us, The appointment HtU means that a body of gentlemen are to be tb, assembled, and ...

... great interest in the complicated political struggles of their neigh- bours. We have parties enough in this country. Liberals, Whigs, Old and New Radicals (so Mr Chamberlain insists), Conservatives, Tories, Tory Democrats, Irish Nationalists, and the Fourth ...

... that the political history of the century really began with the Amerioan War, he dealt with the 1poltion of the Tories and Whigs at that time, Dnd next spoke of the influences which made vublic opinion outside the House of Commons. Having touched upon ...

... , and it was usually believed that they DI would act together on behalf of the Whigs. Thle writs e lor I he election were Issued on October lst, and on the b 3ib the Whigs hola their meetingf to airree upon theh ir .boice. Crugler was nominated and adopted ...

... not always to be ascribed to the force of intellectual con- viction. Lord Hartington brings to the support of very 1 plain Whig principles an astonishing amount of mental laziness and a portentous quantity of aristocratic prejudice. All his life he ...