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... on of circumstances be- ! come obsolete and unmeaning labels. Coin-; pare, say, a Liberal of to-day with the tradi- tional Whig of 60 or 70 years ago, such as Lord Grey or Lord Melbourne. Compare the; so-called Conservative of to-day with the I full-blooded ...
... POLITICAL SAYiNS3 AND DDIN§S. 7e A very distinguished member of s, the Liberal party, himself a scion of an old 1s North country Whig house, who has hitherto - been identified with the Hoome rule notion, Y generally familiar, informs ine that the attitude of ...
... THE IRISH. ATITmUDE TO HOME RULE. A very distinguished, member of the Liberal parry, himself a scion of an old north country Whig house, who has hitherto been identified with the Home Rule notion, generally familiar, informs me (writes the London correspondent ...
... associations with drill-sergeants and things military. It wouldcertainly have shocked Brougham and the mildlyrevolutionary Whigs of the early thirties, who waxed wrathfully eloquent at the bare mention of the possibility of the applica- tion to England ...
... he wvas and be a, diis'redit to tiem. They were unanimous. It S could eas iv be done, because it teas not a question Ii of Whig, Padlisal. or Tury, hut a question of the benefit and respect of their riative country. (A- plause.f Int conclusion, lie remarked ...
... on expedience. The incompetent Gaiway, who kn had been twice defeated in Spain, was re- ET called only when his friends the Whigs had Pt] been ousted by the Tories under Harley ca and St John, and next year these co: same Tories dismissed the ever-victorious ...
... his mark iin Alhrdeen slica he was only 23; and in eourse of time he rose to be the city's representative in Parliament. The Whigs at last promoted himr to the Governorn;.vo of Newfoundland. and in that ?? he died. lifs portrait hangs to-day in the Aberdeen ...
... LIof. his contemplation anty budding Liberal poli- .tician uhno dii nut enjoy the cachet of relation- .ship Nvitli a great Whig house. Towards the - end of his career the grea~t Liberal chief was obliged to exercise a great deal more of compre. hension ...
... these Socialists'would come round to think with the Unionists and say, in the slightly altered words of the old song:- Awa. Whigs. awa; - Yetwe but a pack of ?? leons, Yell dae nae guid ava. REPRESENTATION UF EAST FIFE. Candidature of Mr Constable. Mr ...
... the friends of temper- ance to remember that their cause was far bigger and more important than the mere difference between Whig or Tory. It was a national, if not international, question they had in hand. Touching on Mr Souttar's bill, he said the Royal ...
... control their destinies by t m- means of the franchise, yet the object which the . ae Libdral party-he was speaking now~ of the Whig 'a section-bad in institnting these r eforms was to t counteract the influence of the old landded Y- aristocracy, and to secure ...
... rally were allowed to run their six or 1 seven years' leaso of life. Things went ratlier sleepily in those days of the E great Whig oligarchy, and at the General 1 I Election of 1754, for instance, only forty-two I [ English seats were contested. Those also ...