... form and substance to the idea, we inur get rid of present Partv Names and the prejudices, if not animosities, they enshrine. Whig and Tory. Liberal and Conservative, belong to history ; they are glaring anachronisms if applied to the politics of Great Britain ...

... Transvaal. This, however, may not adequately represent the real intuition of M. Loubet and his Cabinet, for M. Loubet is like the Whigs at the end of last century in his endeavour after universal tt . • , , • \ '1 I . 1 a! li 1 I, i 1 , . V ~ 0 MI Pailllllhuftooil ...

... deadly as that of Montagu and Capulet. Under the rose the daughter of the staunchest Tory in Yorkshire had first met the hated Whig on a fine hunting morn on one of the rare occasions when Mr. Malone's duties as lustice of the Peace called him to the Assizes ...

... plead for his life nowadays. Should he, perchance, prove kindly disposed towards me, should 1 be able to persuade him that a Whig may be as capable of loving and cherishing his wife as a Tory, should he but grant me permission in a year's time to pay my ...

... quietly gave in when, on a threatened change of Ministry, the Queen imperiously put down her foot and declined to turn out her Whig household for Tory ladies. Again, no great fuss was made when the Queen, in virtue of her strictly legal, but almost forgotten ...

... others behind. In the whole history of the Liberal party, from the days when those whom we now call Liberals used to be called Whigs, the same state of things has existed. A secession of ome kind is of almost regular periodical occurrence. I read, therefore ...

... author assigns the death of Pitt to a broken heart over the victory of Napoleon at Austerlitz. He reminds us, however, that the Whigs of the period attributed the end to port wine. Pitt was not the only statesman to he thus maligned. Lord Brougham, who as a ...

... sting of the interrupter's remark was due to the fact that Disraeli had previously coquetted with the advanced section of the Whigs led by Lord Durham. MR. J. A. HAMMERTON, author of j. M. Barrie and his Books, and that popular holiday story, Tonv's Holiday ...

... have been mainly Evangelical ; Smyths, outside Ireland and in a degree Scotland, High Church and Roman Catholic; the Smiths, Whig, Liberal, Radical : the Smyths, Tory and Jacobite. The little letter y, as the author shows, has indeee proved a huge differentia ...

... sale to say that the Old Country Party of the fifties would look with agony and astonishment at the present Cabinet. As the Whigs became Liberals and the Tories Conservatives, so there are unmistakable signs that in the near future Enghnd will be divided ...

... them. A Tory was originallya Popish outlaw and robber who made the Irish bogs the scene of his depredations; while a Whig was a vulgar rustic of the Scottish lowlands, narrow-minded and over-zealous. When the name first came to be used, Radical ...

... West— Drakes and Bampfvldes, Chichesters and Carews, Butlers and Aclands. Roundhead and Cavalier, Jacobite and Hanoverian, Whig and Tory, are all there ; for, in accordance with the spirit of the founder, the school has educated alike the gentry and the ...