... Queen and our old institutions was the Taper-and-Tadpole cry, that Mr. Gladstone good-humouredly bantered the statement of a Whig Minister that her Majesty had definite and firm opinions upon all the questions of the day. What, the rising politician exclaimed ...

... Literary and Dftiatir.j Society, Mr. ,vi. 15. Len'i* m the chair, A. Lu ...

... as “possessing “the finest head I ever saw—the only one which I would choose for Aristides,” he was one of the staunchest Whigs who ever in the Huuse of Commons; and, although that arty was out of ower during almost the whole pericd in whic! he was a ...

... prove but “a mystic symbol of power,” but it soon became apparent that she had views of her own. If she took the advicé of her Whig Ministers readily it was because she agreed with them. As a matter of fact, the Queen exhibited considerable zeal as a reformer ...

... ycar, Mr. Disraeli intro- duced his Reform Bill, which. Lord Derby described as “a lesy in the dark” and “the dishing of the Whigs.” it raissd the the body from a million and a Nalf to two millions and a half, and confsrred the botovgh franchise upon all ...

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