... phenomenon hal for Englishmen a very pregnant moral traditions of London have been until com paratively recent years essentially Whig When it broke away from its hereditary policy—ae it did when it lent Pitt generous support against his rivals—it was always ...

... conciliation of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and his supporters have no chance of succeeding. There are no longer, it says, Whigs or Tones in England, but only Imperialists of every degree and anti-Inqperiahsts of all shades.—-Reuter. The opinion expressed ...

... working impossible, are strange guardians of its dignity. From the days when O’Connell railed at the base, brutal, and bloody Whigs ’ down to the present session the Irish members have exhausted the vocabulary of abuse and vituperation ; they have spared ...

... to be shot because he was doing his best has been paralleled by a sarcastic rector in the North, referred to the“ Northern Whig.” He has put up a notice to the effect that The object of the choir is to encounage, not discourage, the congregation.” The ...

... together with this intensity and keenness the new President is man of moderation. , . . In truth, there is a great deal of the old Whig moderation—we use the term rather in the English than the American sense-pabout Mr. Roosevelt. That is the spirit which dislikes ...

... sympathy or confidence. Her political intuitions were not illiberal, but the Liberalism which she clung was confined to the old Whig principles of religious toleration and the personal liberty of the subject. She deprecated change in the great institutions ...

... Painful Feature The Standard” declares that everyone, Whig, Badical, or Tory,” who heard or reads Mr. Chamberlain’s speech will be glad that, in the face foreign affronts, a Minister of the Crown seized the opportunity which presented itself for such ...

... strange are the freaks and changes which displays. Orange was originally, as, after the Revolution, was only to bo expected, tha Whig colour in England. Wo recall Lord Chesterfield’s pretty epigram beginning:— Say, lovely Tory, why the jest. Of wearing orange ...

... extends over nearly half a century, if we reckon its beginning from his going to Vienna with Lord John Bussell, when the great Whig statesman mad© futil© ©fforfc to end the Crimean war. His first great appointment was Ambassador to Petersburg in 1879, and ...

... extract from speech made by the Rev. John Flanagan at Newbliss. County Monaghan, on March 20, 1863, and reported in the ‘Northern Whig’:— 'She should he reminded that one her •ncestors, who swore to maintain the Protestant religion, forgot his oath, and his ...

... The New Ibish Danger There is an excellent article on Ireland in 1902 in the Fortnightly” by An Old Whig of the School of Grattan.” The writer dwells on the terrorism exercised by the new League, and condemns the easy-going policy favoured by the Irish ...

... BELFAST OPINIONS. The Northern Whig (R.) to-day says: Mr. Wyndham’s Bill is conceived on right lines and inspired by the right spirit, therefore welcome it, and wish it every success. The New* Letter” (U.) says indeed great step in advance, freeing from ...