... bit of fun by nailing blue ribbon on peoples doors, but there was no joke in it,and the job was a good thing for the Whigs,' It is a pity they couldn't nail their candidate up to the House of Commons. (No admittance except on business). J PEN ...

... Dawson was not a prominent public man. He was an ardent Churchman, and in politics, at any rate in his younger days, he was a Whig. For some years he represented the parish of Llanasa on the Holywell Board of Guardians, and was also churchwarden. He took ...

... Duke of Newcastle's Colonial Policy in the Palmerston Cabinet of 1859. As no other human being had thought of doing this, the Whigs employed Sir RPIISOIl Maxwell in Egypt, and made him a Colonial judge at Penang. Yet another English Lord has captured an American ...

... thing than the Lord Salisbury and the Sir Philip Currie of the '90's. There was a time when Sir Philip Currie, who was born of Whig parentage, imagined himself a Liberal; but the close relations between the two men at the Foreign Office in recent years led ...

... of Lady Duff Gordon, Reeve came to London as a young man with as great a reputation as the youthful Benjamin Disraeli. The Whigs ultimately made him Registrar of the Privy Council, an office wL icli gave him immense indirect influence in the decisions ...

... woods, came upon a urutii lviua wh. Q hia IEAA- Halloo 1 exclaimed Locket. One ot our fellows been on the tear. Why, dash my whig if it ain't the Young 'Un! Fancy the Young 'Un going on the spree I thought he looked rather upset and bowled over when he ...