... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... middle of the jree venti7. 0From the Revolution -onwards English politics were pr -- tically controed by the headsof the -great Whig and Tory hoes, ed :althugh th - e; ormi Bill of 1832 began the change which was comleted. in 18852- the men of the old ordeo ...

... reputable about their caste, they could hardly choose better than the head of the Cavendishes. The Caven-. dishes have been a great Whig family for genera- tions, and they have been a familf-eminent for brain. It has been looked upon is a matter of course that ...

... that he-had made a distinct advance and taken another lease of life, The late Earl was a splendid example of the eound old Whig whose sympathies were ever with the people, and who, if circumstances compelled him to make his ohoice, would be sare to incline ...

... treat with trade unions, But could they TURN THE CLOCK BACK twenty-five years? Such a defence could not be listened to, The Whig and the Tory parties had both legislated for, and legalised trade unions, which were the only means by which the men could ...

... effcted, ando it might.almost seem ungenerous to refer to the t favoarite Tory gamne of keeping in office by dishing I the Whigs, The point is that the Tories muast not brag, So long s3 they allow their conversion to C 'prove iteelf silently by deeds ...

... sat in Ptrtiament for c Ir Wiltshire for many years, and who was long one of o to the mcst influential county members on the Whig a side. Paul Methuen was madea Peer on the oooasion d or of the Queen's Coronation. He had been beaten for D sy North Wilts ...

... Pretender. On Ihe 30th October, the K KiDg's ?? the ibfiuential citizens were entertained a at the Council House. where, says. the Whig Oracle. all the loyal toasts were drank under salvosf smail arms. { and the glees went round with an uncommon chearfulness ...

... of the three o'clock express from Paddington one afternoon last 'week. There were only four persons present. Dne of whom, a Whig who claimed that lie had ence belonged to the Liberal party, got Into discus-' sion with an avovged Radical oppolite, The renegade ...

... that had been aroused by our tei own political conflicts of the previous century. Cavaliers ra and Iloundleade, Tories and Whigs, had by turns enjoyed t a temporary domination, and each, in abusing power, had hi ?? wounds on their adversaries which still ...

... should be for . naturalizing the devil, since he was one of those who banished Old Christmas. The political opponents of the Whig Ministry having Con'sltently resisted Jewish emaunci- pation from the outset, :the Bill pased. through both Houses with almost ...