... Dancing on the Bill. Tho attitude of the Government was characteristically Whig. Lord Suffield had said that in view of the expressed opinion of the House of Commons. lii believed that Secretary of State would execute the law, but both Lord Chancellor ...

... to have been known to the Long Parliament, but satisfactory evidence is lacking. In the peaceful, palm-greasing days of the Whig ascendency under Walpole it was well-known, and, apparently, not universally approved of ; for on March 6, 1743, a motion was ...

... Jeffrey lived in the earliest years of the century, and gathered about him one day 1802 that historic assemblage of young Whigs graphically described by Sydney Smith. It was at that meeting that (Sydney Smith, who must always have his joke, suggested ...

... multiplied. They all speak of the sense of a high Imperialism which animates the breast of every true Canadian, be Grit or Tory, Whig or Liberal-Conservative, Patron or Equal Bights advocate. It is a nniqne assurance that, as the Hev. Principal Grant puts it ...

... Salisbury, who sues him for most impudent, scandalous lies raised of him.” Tewkesbury is a quiet, trading, drunken town, a Whig baily and all well.” Manchester, Warrington, Bolton, and Rochdale are bracketed as having no magistrates, as sending no members ...

... because it was a union between the old Tories and a considerable number of Whigs. So far as he was concerned, he thanked God that the Badical patty had got rid of these Whigs, for they had been a persistent millstone round their necks. Very few Radicals ...

... sluster ever placed upon dining-room table,” owing to the unsteadiness of hand induced by its consumption ; and, lastly, the Whigs made of punch a party armk and dragged it down with them into disgrace. To return from the reality to the semblance, very curious ...

... dislike. As far as principle goes, there is no incompatibility between the Objections Lord Kimberley and of Lord Londonderry. The Whig opponent insists that the burden of compensation should be thrown universally and directly upon the community; while the grievance ...

... veiled hostility displayed towards the measure Lord Kimberley. The Radical leader is true those traditions which made the Whigs the bitterest opponents of Factory Legislation, and always prevented them from undertaking any serious social, distinguished ...

... criminals’ are now receiving their punishment. Was there ever an engineer so hoist by his own petard ? The old game of Dishing the Whigs has broken down, and .he bids fair turn out a Disraeli manque.’ has tempted the Tories sell their souls for votes. They have ...

... first barbecue I ever attended—and it was abont the first big barbecue ever held in Kentucky—was in September, IS3C, when the Whigs gave a tremendous demonstration in honour of Henry Clay upon his ret irn to his home from the United States Senate. barbecue ...