... privilege, and printer and editor were summoned to appear the bar the House of Commons. Hook kept out of the way, but the Whigs discovered him at last, and took their revenge by having him arrested a debtor the Crown for j £12,000. remained in the King's ...

... feminine the eternal masculine. The Stooping Lady Hermia Mary Chambre, granddaughter of the Countess of Morfa, very great Whig lady of the early nineteenth century; anil the cause of her stooping her champion- 6hip young David Vernour, butcher by ...

... differences, but they were ver; mucn smnlier than those in the Liberal museum, where they had variety politicians from tin- old Whig the Socialist and the cattle driver. Unionists should consolidate resist tampering with constitution, maintain the L'nioii ...

... praeticc of his predecessors, treated those who appeared before him with uniform fairness and justice. Although politically a Whig, Holt's judicial career was entirely free from the stigma of party bias or intrigue. He distinguished himself by his courageous ...

... was founded in the interests Church and State in 1823, and forthwith began series of virulent attacks on the then dominant Whig house of Berkeley. This was resented by a leading member of that aristocratic family, who visited the editor at his private ...

... E. Russell writes in playful vein an essay The Queen and the Whigs, based on the sidelights thrown by Queen Victoria's recently published correspondence on her attitude towards her Whig Ministers in the g»rly days of her reign. The Book on tbo Table ...

... ended in Mr. Schreiber wresting the seat from Col. Berkeley by a small majority, and putting end.to the ascendancy the great .Whig house in Cheltenham. The Baron apparently took part in the election, for his name does not appear as amongst those present ...

... his feet, though some old women stuck to their easy chairs. In a few weeks 300,000 men were enrolled, armed, and drilled. Whigs and Tories actually stood side by side the ranks with- out pulling up their sleeves and clench- , ing their fists. While Napoleon ...

... \v:'n Ijori.iv, Paimersion, Disraeli, nl'stjno, and Salisbury were the giants an ong political protagonists. Coming of a gleti Whig house, it early fell his lot L-'iD, only years old and sitting in the liou»e Commons as member for Lane ishire, to move and ...

... good wishes of his fellow countrymen save, it may be, few who are blinded by party prejudice. Belonging what may be called the Whig wing of the Liberal party, it is but reasonable to expect that be will adopt and carry oat policy of more moderate character ...

... Cirencester in 1705, being then not quite of a He was made a Peer, retired from politics the accession George I. (when the Whigs came into power), and turned to tho more congenial affairs of literature and art. He patronised the poets and wits— notably ...

... staunch Whig and supporter the Berkeley interest in the town, he actively canvassed for Hon. Craven Berkeley on the occasion of the latter's last contested election. Later there occurred temporary estrangement between him and the local Whigs over some ...