... But as his i biographer shows, Labby was quite earnest in his attempt to break up the union between the Radicals and the Whigs during Mr. Gladstone's ministry, and he made desperate efforts to use The Life of Henry Labouchf.re. By Algar Labouchere I ...

... have produced a masterly adaptation of the German method to Isuit our national require ments. But Tullochgorum's desire that Whig and Tory a' agree is not yet fulfilled, for Lord Lansdowne's measure, like Mr. Asquith's speech at Manchester on Saturday, ...

... you assure me it 's all right, I '11 see about it. Devonshire House is hardly less guarded with walls, witnesses to the old Whig exclusiveness and the enthusiast who wants to borrow a drawing from a Duke or a Duchess must turn two corners and ring the ...

... rout it with its own weapons. At his accession the country was governed by two hundred noblemen and gentlemen representing the Whig families. The influence and irresistible power of these families of the revolution had been upheld by promiscuous corruption ...

... was the leader of the nation. Twice he mobilised the unenfranchised, workers and led them in victorious campaigns against the Whig and Tory aristocracies. Public opinion in his hands became an irresistible weapon before which unwilling Cabinets and Parliaments ...

... that Lord Broughton who, as Lord Rosebery has put it, began as a fierce Radical, became by a natural process of evolution a Whig, and ended in the order of congruity as a peer. In his later years one of the things he was most proud of was having in vented ...

... or Conservatives be fore their eyes are opened will depend upon whom you want to please. To a Labour audience some can be Whigs and some Tories before their eyes are opened and Labour supporters afterwards. To a mixed audience you simply explain the varying ...

... Piccadilly, has a political as well as social interest, for the Spencer and Al>er- corn families represent, respectively, Whig and Tory traditions. But politics have not much chance against Cupid nor, for that matter, against fashion and the women guests ...

... far back as '76, when he was twenty, he was an ardent fighter for the cause. At Princeton, when he was star debater of the Whig Society, and should have represented his Hall in the competition for the Lynde Debates, his principles ruled him out. The subject ...

... Athenaeum-- the only club, Henry Kingsley used oracularly to say, a wife should like her husband to be long to. Henry Reeve, the Whig editor of the Edinburgh, wished to be his proposer. Lowe, afterwards Lord Sherbrooke, told Acton he would stay away from the ...

... know that we ever heard or chronicled speeches made before royal person- I aves bv mayors whether thev were I i Tories or Whigs, or Liberals or Radicals, which were couched in such a tone at once of courteous 1 1 homage, manly independence, and gentlemanly ...

... 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 ...