... Burke did the same ; thing on one occasion in the heat of debate, ** I quit the camp,” he cried, and forthway abandoned the Whigs. “I can orer to the other side of the House,” exclaimed the more prosaic Maclean, and the other side” he went. Whether will ...

... in the House of Commons from 1847 to 1868 member for Chester, and was created Duke Westminster in 1874. He was one of the Whig Dukes Mr Gladstone's creation, but at the time of the first introduction of his great leader’s Home Rule Bill his convictions ...

... banquet along with the victor of Southportall these things have sank deep into the heart of the erstwhile organ of the northern Whigs, and have brought oo flta mental depression, nob to speak of spleen. Hence the biting articles against Mr M Crae, M.P., which ...

... interesting to note that while Lord Salisbury, the hereditary Tory, supported the innovation, the Duke of Devonshire, the erewhiie Whig, strenuously denounced it, and for once the Chamber related to obey the crack the Cecil’s whip. There not much chance that ...

... Justin M‘Carthy. M.P., and Sir E. K. Russell, M.P., now editor of the Liverpool Daily Pont. 1868, Mr Alexander Russel, the great Whig editor thu North, offered him the post of assistant editor of the Scotsman, which, under his direction, had already become ...

... demands Scotsmen and Irishmen will met the Liberal parly, or whether Arthur Balfour and Joseph Chamberlain will repeat the Whig-dishing trick. In his candidature Dr Douglas has shown himself able and ready politician with creditable knowledge of public ...

... politics any time this last forty years. He commenced his political career a Liberal, but, a representative of one of the old Whig houses, found his proper position after the great divide 1886 the Home Rule question, and he is now one the pillars the Unionist ...

... staunch ally of Mr Pitt, and she played as important part in Tory campaigning, as Georgina Duchess Devonshire did among the Whigs. She did not know the meaning fear. one occasion her London house caught fire, and great deal of damage was done, but she gave ...

... it. Undoubtedly great national prosperity was always a difficulty fti the way labour parlies. Prosperity made Parlia‘iment Whig, whatever it might call itself. After referring to the taxation of ground values. Sir Charles Dilke said—What did recommend ...

... as this it would be rash predict. Nearly sixty years have passed since Diaraeli accused Sir Robert Peel having dished the Whigs by running away with their clothes while they wore bathing, and it is possible Parliamentary history may be about to repeat ...

... included Sydney Smith, Brougham, and Horner. Sydney Smith conceived the idea of starting Udinburijk Bedew. It was to lie the great Whig oracle the intellectual world. Tho Jit view was at first edited committee, but Jeffrey soon became the first real editor. Its ...

... astonishment that they did not amalgamate, and Iris advice is likely to accepted. Mr Thomas Macknight, editor of the “Northern Whig,” whose death is rei»orted to-day, has for more than quarter of a century past been a noteworthy in Ulster—formerly in Liberal ...