... 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 ...

... style and humour.” . Those who have followed a recent controversy may be interested to learn that the Whig moralist, who had something of the Whig s suspicion of parsons, thought his own age the worst time for insolence, riot, pride, and presumption ...

... 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 ...

... Radical, has nothing of the Stop-the-warrior about him ; in fact, he is as sound an Imperialist as any man in the country, Whig or Tory, and his South African sympathies are all against Krugerism and in favour of the British ideal. That being so, patriotic ...