... statement, that during the last minutes of his life the Minister exclaimed, “ O my country and *“ Save m country, 0God!” The Whig version, as related zy Sydney Smith, was that Mr. Pitt was declared by the nurse to have merely asked for barley-water. Now ...

... shout for n::g an invention, which even the Nereids need not despise. Dizzy once sarcastically referred to certain “ Bathing W(h)igs,” but they were of another sort. Net even the most adventureus Tory could *“steal the clothes ”of our latter day * Bathing ...

... possessions as because of the unselfishness and generosity with which he administered his trust. Though head of one of the great Whig houses, he seldom took an active part in political affairs. But as a resident landlord and in other relations of life, he was ...

... country lane to the eommrs.—- quarter of a mile away on the hillside—the * Profundis” bei chanted by the way. Hard by the hedge whi:g divides the cemetery—a gift from Mr. Smith to the parish—from the roadway was a plain earth grave, the sides and bottom of ...

... this as a financial operation was s 0 surprising t many imitators, witnessi: their success, indulged in nimyihr enterprises, wh.i:g ended in disaster. The original firm, however, have now announced their intention of issuing a second series on the previous ...

... Traders, and was more of a reformer than Palmerston, there was no difficulty from thet quarter, but Brooks and the Ultra- Whigs and Radicals were ratber sulky about the appointment. At the * F. 0. itself Granville soon won golden opinions. He went in ...

... gust of wind, howling and whistling like an u&u- train, m over the district, and catchi o dividing of the illfated building, whi:g towered 20 or 30 feet above the roofs of the adjoining houses, drove them out with a terrific crash, The masonry and girders ...

... Balkans.” In 1831 Major Km married toe third daughter of Sir Coutts r, Bart.; ard in the followin& year was returned in the Whig interest as one of the members for East Norfolk, representing that constituency until 1835. He unsuccessfully contested Lynn ...

... strife : » sarvi of the old aristooratic republioc of the by:on days in which the kites and the crows, under the names of Whigs and Tories, battled for domination over the poultry. But we lived to-day in & democratio republic, snd the poultry in theory ...

... must be safe w 0 affirm that Lord Albemarle, who died the other day, was the last person who remembered Mr. Fox. The great Whig's fondness for children is well-known ; and Lord Albemarle, when a child, used to play bat, trap, and ball with bim in the ...

... devoted himself exclusively to the history of the United States and politics, and renouncing his previous connection with the Whigs, attached himself to the then vietorious Democratic Party. In 1838 President van Buren appointed him Collector of Customs ht ...