... prominent Whig* were prosecuted on the evidence of perjured informers. and many of them suffered death. The Earl of Shaftesbury, the Whig leader, was accused of high treason, but was acquitted; in fact, Tory juries would convict Tory, and where the Whig* pr ...

... Peerages to daryeven without paying for them. We fear 1 that at a'pinch-Mr. Asquith would not hesitate. a» the aristocratic Whig Prime Minister of hesitated, to advise the wholesale creation Peers for purpose. ...

... which had struggled for it. Rut the Republic has become increasingly democratic, and M. Casimir-Pcrier belonged to kind of Whig Republican class which has almost vanished from power. It was during his Premiership that Vail- Jant, the Anarchist, threw ...

... troubled period during which be occupied the position of leader of the Oppc'Mtior in the House of Commons, his position as an old Whig between the late but ctill present leader, Mr. Gladstone, and the new and aspiring leader, Mr. Chamberlain, was rot always ...

... they denied, so that the meeting was called without any authority whatever, it must remembered that Truth had stated tnat the Whigs were trying to capture Liberal Associations. U was very artful proceeding on Mr. Peer's part, almost worthy of Joey, for placed ...

... more or less, and neither party can afford Ibrow mud the other. Where open money-bags are to be found in large numbers—whether Whig or Tory—there is corruption- A word of caution. Let Shrewsbury be a warning to us against the dangers tighting municipal elections ...

... steeplejack? (ell from a chimney-stack at WotveiSamptoß on Saturday ana were kilted. “WHY COULD NOT WE CAST HIM OUT ’■ George Wain whig hi. The example of the nine Apostles*, nftbr their lamentable failure to heal the demon-possessed boy, deserves the special ...

... county in the House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) It did seem strange for him opposing one of the name of Portmanf whose name the Whig interest had been honoured for many years in the West England. Well, they in that division had been worried by the Tories, ...

... an» indited earrintuay beaajd Mr, who succeeds Mr. J. K. Kllw at the Iridla Oflßce. Twenty or thirty yeans Would have been a whig: now a Radical. More interacting tlie enlistment of Dr. as Mr. Burns to!league the Government Board, noside* being ex-teftbher ...

... forefathers, was against the cause of the people. No name in the West of England had been more honoured years than that of the Whig family of Portman. (Hear, hear.) He was glad to know that the noble head of the great house was true the Free Trade cause (cheers); ...

... that new Budget before them, which was very ably advocated on the other side by two sets of judgment—advocated by the old Whigs and the new school of Liberalism. He thought the speeches they had heard Limchousc and at Leicester by Mr Lloyd George and ...

... Club on the 6th Inst., I am made to say, There were still in the House of Commons number of men with the traditions of the Whigs. . . . When the Prime Minister took them into his Government he mode a great error in judgment and proved himself not the man ...