... burning interest. This is Mr. Harrington's proposal for unity of the Parnellite party with one or other section ot the warring Whigs, who to your true Parnellite represent the difference between Tweedledum and Iweedledee. Mr. Harrington has the imprimat1r ...

... withdrawn from political lije, thus publicly acknowledging that' their party has ?? future. Even in Austria there is no place for Whigs. Strange to say, considering their history, it is the Poles who have taken the place of the Germans as the dominant race in ...

... Lord justice in 1882; but the former was not militant, and the latter had held high office. So in 1828, although a notorious Whig, says Campbell, I had been placed at the head of the Real Property Commis- sion. This was Peel's doing, and in 1830 Lyndhurst ...

... call it, such an alliance, and that the firstfruits of the alliance were the defeat of the Government, the resignation of the Whig Ministry, [andd the appointment in due course of the Derby-Disraeli Cabinet to succeed them. The chief stipulation, so far ...

... inculcating moral and political truths, and chaffing both sides in a good-humoured way amid ripples of laughter from Tories and Whigs. A particularly good South African story that he is telling causes general laughter, and arrests the attention of the chess-players ...

... methods because the game is played upon a larger board. Instead of putting your rival out I I i i of the way, you dish the Whigs by appropriating their ideas, and the change incidentally makes for moral adyance. But there is much to be said for MACHIAVELLI'S ...

... unravelled ? Why, that Defoe's visit to Edinburglh was not only purely political, in that he was acting as the secret agent of the Whigs, but that, to test his ability for the post, he had previously been sent oln a tour of much the same nature through the West ...

... serious d&sathcction in England: the nation was at one in determined rsjstlro to and hatred of Napoleon. Fox and his disloyal Whigs, i.rd and Lady liolland amnong them, were a clique, and when they came i nto powver were forced by the will of the nation to ...

... I was to get rid of the swan. He didn't take out' very much link, but kept swimiunaii backwards and forwards' flapping his whigs ind hisS-' ing, with his mate following bim and doing likewise, only rather.nlore so. I kept letting the line go slack1 and ...

... back into i Colonies ?? v\ry next sentence. The word has outgrown its less happy early ~assiclibi~ s as completely as i' Whig or Tory did.: But perhaps is &-&Du e of Devonshire hints, almost enough has been said :upon the gtnffrl sentiment. The ...

... considerably higher in the favour of the public than they did then. As to the Opposition, they, like Lord BYRON'S friends the Whigs, remain precisely whe:e they were. To come to the particular results of the dip into the legislative lucky-bag w'ex observe ...

... be announced. Sheffield has only been a Par]iamentary borough since 1832, its first two members being Mvlr. John Parker, a Whig barrister, who was the son of the senior magistrate of the town, and Mr. James Silk Buckingham, an Auglo-Indiant journalist ...