... a party man, was of the Whig connection; his Garter was in fact given him by Mr. GLAD - STONE, always in these matters a stickler for etiquette. When, therefore, the SErrosi Garter became available for a new recipient, the Whigs within the Ministeri.d ...

... would, as has been already made clear, have been according to State usage that the stall of a Whig noble at St. George's Chapel should be filled by another noble Whig. Secondly, the qualifications of the head of the. RUSSELLS were undoubtedly great. The present ...

... ambitious adventurers. It is this which converts the weakness of the Opposition into a national calamity. The loss of the Whigs has done irremediable harm to the Opposition. When Mr. GLADSTONE poisoned the Liberal Party by the injection of Home Rule into ...

... Councils of Europe, and to goad Greece to her doom. Probably these gentlemen did not reflect on what they were doing. Had the Whigs remained in the Party, so sanguinary an act could not have been perpetrated. In all nations, and therefore in all serious political ...

... last beginning to receive something like his due recognition. But it is strange to find a Liberal statesman, who has been a Whig and is just now a Radical (more or less), using such words as these :— The advice which I would give to every youth who intends ...

... friendship of Malthus, philosopher and economist, and of meeting at his house Jeffrey and the other great luminaries of the Whig world. George Canning, the last of a dynasty of statesmen, used to visit the College, as President of the Board of Control ...

... a concise history of the Kaffir wars, illustrated here and there with carefully compiled maps. The colonial policy of the Whigs is adroitly touched upon, and the short-sighted colonial policy of successive administrations is brought notne to the reader ...

... included had the editors been acquainted with the poet's indignant disclaimer in his letter to the editor of the Star (the Whig journalist, Peter Stuart), dated April 13th, 1789. 'Falsely accused,' he says, of two most damning crimes—ingratitude and stupidity ...

... the general public very much as Callum Beg did when he offered Waverley to wait for Mr. Ebenezer Cruikshanks, the auld deevil Whig Carle,' as he termed him, just a wee bit from the toon, and kittle his quarters wi' her skene-occle.' But for these and other ...

... trial as unjustifiable. There was allusion in the letter to the white feather, but the gravamen of the charge is contained in a Whig song, from which we extract two stanzas. stot-feeder Stuart, Kent for that fat-cow-art, _ glegly he kicks ony ha', man, And ...

... of satisfying the Nationalist members. On the contrary, they denounce it with great animation, and regard it as simply a Whig dodge to shelve what they consider their just claims. Mr. JOHN REDMOND is particularly indignant, and regards this development ...

... travelled to the foot of it. Macaulay's enemy Creker, who may have been a varlet,' but was not by any means such a fool as the Whigs loved to paint him, has summed up the merits of the Letters so well that it is easier to quote his description than to better ...