... beaten in the first two rounds was won by Mrs. Storry, of Minchin- hampton, the competition for all who entered by Miss S. Whig- ham, of the Elysian Club, and the approach competition by Mrs. G. S. Clarke, of the Royal Belfast Club. Captain Adair, of ...

... Nowadays it seemed as if all parties in tbe State had agreed to do that which was regarded as thoroughly unsound by the old Whig school in which be was brought up, namely, to establish a system of State-aided pen- sions. But the Gardener-.' Benevolent ...

... Lord Lome get over the fact that his father and he, who represent the great « hi;; 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 under a Prime ...

... achievements destroyed the old Whig Party. He was not so sure of that. If the Whig Party was only a respectable head to be dragged by a Radical tail, then he did not think it was a matter for regret if it were destroyed : but if the Whig Party was a Tarty which ...

... mentary Party on the lines laid down by Paruell national self-government can be wrung from England, whether shi be governed by a Whig or Tory Ministry. That wiu| larnclls belief, and had not the majority of the Irisi representatives at Westminster proved false ...

... was not their love of Mr. Jordan wliich induced them to .adopt this astounding course. The most despicable nominee which the Whigs could put in nomination would have received the same amount of support from them. Tliose who warn others against the sins of ...

... previous evening. Sir William Harcocrt had reproached the Duke of Devonshire with having destroyed the old Whig Party. If, replied the Dure, the Whig Party was only a respectable head to be dragged at the tail of the Radical Party there would be little matter ...

... Russell, or, as he is particularly named on the title page, Lord John Kussell, elsewhere described as the last of the great Whig statesmen. With regard to the choice of this heading for the book, Mr. Reid antici- pates an obvious criticism by stating ...

... eminent of English historians of Greece— Mitford, Thirlwall, and Grote— who endeavour to fand support for their Conservative, Whig, and Kadical views respectively in the various phases of Greek political constitutions. Mr. Hammond's work is likewise an ...

... satis- faction to the then majority of the House, he was to be dismissed with such character as he might deserve— a preg nant Whig precedent indeed. The defence of Sir C. Man- ners Sutton was conducted on the same ground. Thus, Lord Stanley condemned the ...

... extra- j ordinary ending of the Whig Party. Now, gentlemen, I am afraid I am delaying jou very long, but I have still something to say. There i.s no longer any reason for the existence of this Party. What called itself the Whig Party now calls itself the Unionist ...

... »t o. ? T^ I for their own peisonai benetit ; and the Whi.. .1 ° f ?? i which was as timid and stupid as ever It VL'h ent ' Whigs who bossed the Liheral Party, con** , ol,i counsels, ami shaped its policy. That waa beine ?? Its ! Many of tin- l.est men ...