... rule in South Africa. It is now :.almost forgotten than Lord Lan sdow~ne began liife as a Whig politician,:and wras pitchorked' !fromn place to' p lace iin Whig Admainistrations. ,Thu from 18Mi till 1872 he was a Minor Lord of the Treaqury., and fromj4872 ...

... Arbuthnot christened the British nation 'c in bulk as John Bull :in the political strife inci il a denta4l to the disimissal of the Whig. Ministry of t e 1710, when the able and avar.oious Marlborough saw'tbe beginning' of the decliae of his brilliant t e fortunes ...

... landlord. He formerly aupporued Mr. Butt, arnd labour6 under the imputation, so deadly in Ireland, of being a Whig. In England trhe oname of Whig i8 connected with the Revolution of 1688, and the Reform Aet of 18:32. In Ireland it has other and less savoury ...

... acquiniuted wvith political F history may perhaps fall back upon the legis- I:ttion of the Thirties and point out that; the F Whigs were responsible for the new Poor Law. Under the old P1oor Lawi, which the Tory party, witll the conspicuous exception of Sir ...

... and exclaimed to a son of the house who was his brother officer, Hullo, what's this? A trial? Yes, replied the youthful Whig, that is the trial of my ancestor William, Lord Russell. My dear fellow, I am so sorry I mentioned it. An ancestor of yours ...

... part in the choice and so seem to bind themselves to an obedience which they could not honestly promise if the leader were a Whig not only in person, but in policy. He had pointed out at Gloucester -why the questions of the foreign affairs and of Imperial ...

... member claimed that in recent years there had been in the Rouse of Commons, but not in the country, considerable reversion to Whig ideals. Political reforms were mainly of value as leading to industrial reform. The true welfare of the country depended more ...

... that he then parted company with those who had been his political associates and threw in his own fortunes with those of tihe Whig party. This change - became the sourre of most that was gracious ini his life, and of all that is enduring in his fame. Sir ...

... futility, the believers ill the necessity of the reform of the liquor laws will find themselves, like Lord BvazoN's friends the Whigs, precisely where they were. For our own part, and at the risk of being denounced as minions of the Trade, we are not ...

... sin, and even that ii. must stand as an impediment in the progress of the world. (Applause.) Lady Paget then moved the S- 'Wi whig resolu- tion That this meeting is of opinion thai, vivisection is a gross abuse of man's power ovei the animal creation, and ...

... place, that a solid Liberal party has never existed since extreme Radicalism came into being. The incompatibility between the Whigs who followed Lord MELBOURNE and the Radicals who acted with O'CONNELL was as complete as that between oil and vinegar. Mr. ...

... Councils embarking upon. a reckiess ex- penditure in cottages. They are much too care- ful of the rates for that. When the Whigs, supported by Sir Robert Peel, passed the Newv Poor Jaw in 1834, indiscriminate relief distri- buted by irresponsible magistrates ...