... period the Whigs frequently adopted the colour. In some satirical verses published after the death of Bishop Burnet, his Satanic Majesty is represented as asking after Dr. Hoadley, and Burnet as replying 44 Oh, perfectly well: A truer blue Whig you have ...

... whether anything was gained in electoral in fluence by the substitution of Conservative for Tory, 01 that of Liberal for Whig. Be that as it may, pace Mr Keir Hardie, Socialism has yet to win popularity as a war cry. It has, no doubt, some respectable ...

... rise of new and very different forces in political life from those represented by the deceased Duke. The old type of great Whig nobleman which the Duke of Devonshire so fully represented is one which has done the State good service in its time. Such men ...

... house of Lansdowne have always been Whig down, at least, to the Home Rule split it is difficult to apply the term with any precision to the com plicated conditions of the present day. The family has outlived the word Whig, as it preceded it. For the Fitz- ...

... to his old post at the War Office. Throughout his long association with Mr. Gladstone, Lord Hartington represented the solid Whig element in the Liberal party, and he was known to have little or no sympathy with the advanced wing represented by Mr. Chamberlain ...

... little to his birth. His father was a Canon of York, and both father and grandfather were connected by marriage with the leading Whig families of England. It would, therefore, have been some what surprising if Sir William Harcourt had been entirely free from ...

... needs of the Navy transformed into pawns in the party game of chess. This is a matter as to which there should be neither Whigs nor Tories the Estimates for both the combatant Services should be framed with a single eye to the needs of the national defence ...

... well as oi politics. They were both intimate friends of the late Mr. Gladstone, and both more or less inheritors of the old Whig traditions. There, perhaps, the resemblance ends, for Mr. Russell is distinguished as the entertaining raconteur, the urbane ...

... and one that has to be reckoned with seriously by every man who has any thing to lose, no matter whether he calls himself Whig or Tory, or what not. As might have been expected, the Chancellor of the Exchequer tried fo revenge himself for his inability ...

... dwindled by three times that sufficiently formidable figure. In other words, if the Tory has been chastised with whips, the Whig has been chastised with scorpions, and neither side has much to boast of Coming, as it has done, upon the top of the elections ...

... The quaint old dress, the grand old style, The mots, the racy stories, The wine, the dice, the wit, the bile, The hate of Whigs and Tories, as Frederick Locker sang in his London Lyrics. The St. James's, in Piccadilly, is a diplomatic club for foreign ...

... expressed, considered politically, it dis plays not only the Tory party in the realm of art, but the Liberal Unionists and the Whigs and although the Socialist school may be sought in vain, the Radicals now and again, if but in very small numbers, make a chance ...