... before his death, the politics of the family have become very mixed, and it is not easy to see how the tradition of the great Whig house is to be maintained in days which must see, sooner or later, a quite new opposition of parties. The Cavendishes are a ...

... Lord Sackville make a much fairer start for the Dominion a few days before. But whatever the weather, it fell indifferently on Whig and Tory, a consolation fit tor either party. Sir M. Grant Duff tells of a Channel crossing during which he and two other members ...

... 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 ...

... Aristocratic London, in that age of high politics, had its definably political strongholds Hanover Square was the focus of a Whig neighbourhood, Cavendish Square of a Tory. The comparative failure of Cavendish Square in view of its projector's first aspiration ...

... have heard so much, is in point' of fact not quite so bad as it was in the halcyon days of 1855-68. Then, the dishing of the Whigs was the great game of party politics, and when Disraeli succeeded he described his feat with characteristic aloofness as climbing ...

... us. Macaulay whipped up a little coterie of enthusiasts, and together they packed a stage-coach, inside and out, with young Whig Masters of Arts from the Inns of Court, and sailed gaily down to Cambridge. They bowled up King's Parade just in time to turn ...

... last half century have given their names to parties. Peelites were Conservatives who abandoned Conserva tism, a Palmerstonian Whig was a doubtful Liberal. There have never been Russellites, nor are there Disraelians, nor Salisburyites. There is only one ...

... pleasure-hunting people were beginning to suspect that England was not quite healthy. Now 1 am afraid these old- time Liberal and Whig valua tions have disappeared. The old men have made fortunes and the young men have dreamt night mares. The soldiers believed ...

... vellous enough, in good faith. A guttie ball, think of it. It was also a fact, if witnesses' word can be accepted, that Miss Whig- ham and her sister in that championship on more than one occasion, carried the burn of odorous memory in front of the last ...

... reference without which no gentleman's library is complete. When old John Debrett, the Piccadilly bookseller, favoured by the Whigs, started his famous peerage in 1784, it needed but three small volumes of 400 pages each to-day it has blossomed into a teeming ...

... 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 ...

... so violent that Grey still continued to have considerable influence, though the Puritans, who formed a strong section of the Whig party, looked some what coldly on him. T ady Victoria lnnes-Ker, whose marriage to Captain C. H. Villiers takes place to-day ...