... member of the Cheshire Militia, and his wife followed the drum with him to the North. I-le was also (it would appear) a1 Whig of Whigs; his wife's \Vhiggery was temnered by humour and good sense, but was pretty strong, too and she found many a bitter thing ...

... (London: John Murray.) had led to the abandonment by the old Harrow families of a school no longer so much frequented by the Whig aristocracy, who thronged its ranks after 'the Reforml Bill of 1832, while the governing body had not realized the popular ...

... more in the future. The electors of York, where, quite recently, there was not the difference of a dozen votes between the Whig and the Tory strength, have showed in the most unmis- takable manner that Yorkshiremen have not lost the quality of shrewvd ...

... while his elder brother, Mr. W Ii Leatham, who sat for the Southern Division of the West Riding, stNled himself ' an advanced Whig. Mr. Leatham graduated at Lornd University, obtaining second place in the B.A. examination for classical honours in 1848; ...

... men of all parties are determined to ignore party, and to prove to the world that there are, for the time being, neither Whigs nor Tories, but only Englishmen, united in the common cause of the support of the Govern- ment for the defence of the Empire ...

... menr of all parties are determined to ignore party, and to prove to the wvold that there are, for the time being, neither \Whigs nor Ijorics, but oi:'y Englishmen, united in the common cause of the support of the Governl- ment for the defence of the Empire ...

... servant, ' T F. WI February 12. A LESSON FROM THE WHIGS. T 2 o the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-De Quincey, in. speaking, in an article upon Dr. Samuel Parr, of he. unpatriotic conduct of certain Whigs with regard to the French war in 1803, uses words ...

... better still be abolished altogether, the Opposition would be decidedly the gainer. Mr. Courthope looks back to the days when Whigs and Tories faced each other in the unreformed, aristocratic House of Commons. As a matter of fact, the squabbles of family ...

... regards slavery, the grievance was not so much that slaves were emancipated-and in any case no Englishman would reproach the Whigs with that great measure-but that Lord Grey's Government allotted to Cape slave-owners only about a million and a quarter in ...

... in which, along with much evil, it achieved, also, some good. But now it is threadbare and outworn; as useless as the old Whig politics which Gladstonian Liberalism replaced. Where your lost leader would lead you, if the impossible could come to pass ...

... taken by any intelligent person. In the early forties, after the starting of O'Connells repeal agitation, some more advanced Whigs advocated the holding of the Parliament and Court in Dublin every few years, and this idea of her Majesty of settling down ...

... l Titles, lie had something interesting and suggestive to say upon almost everything that cropped up. lie woas a professed Whig, or rather Liberal-Conservative (a designa- tion not then extinct), and on the whole Lord John Russell could reckon him among ...