... Parliament the Lords are of necessity a consenting party. Does he mean to swamp the Unionist majority by creation of peers as the Whigs threatened 1832 ? When it is remembered that at least 300 new Peers would have to be invested, we doubt whether any man with ...

... ascertainable only after tedious intervals. Towards the end of the eighteenth century vote ballot was advocated by some the Whigs. It stood the original draft of the Reform Bill 1832. It was one the six points of the Chartists. In 1851 the proposal was ...

... of opinion bel tween the head and the tail, and even the body (had little to say to it (laughter). There had I always been a Whig end to Ibe dog, Mid Radical end to the dog, but he did not think I that ever before had there been an old-fashioned Liberal ...

... be considered too literary, and, strange to say, too fervent for these days. He wrote ; I look with pride on all that the Whigs have done for the cause of human freedom and of human happiness. I see them now hard pressed, struggling with difficulties ...

... January 24. Extract from Mr. Gladstone’s Midlothian campaign speech Edinburgh on 9th No\em her, 1885: Apart from the terms of Whig and Tory, there is one thing I will say, and f v . ...

... deadliest wiheu the power a county was divided between two great bouses, as was often the case. Eventually tbs rival grandees. Whig and Tory, wearied of the expense, and agreed to divide the stakes. Out of this arrangement sprang up feeling in favour of an ...

... its original fever to shake oft the incubus. The General Election of 1835 restored the equilibrium of parties, and left the Whigs powerless for the purposes of revolution. The General Election of 1837 annihilated their majority, and it was only the accident ...

... dicated. Henceforward his policy P , vail, and he will see that the men control the Irish party will not hand it ov 3 eithe Whig or Tory the English House Commons- He will see that the Irish party will be independent . all English j their sole aim and ...

... sic omnes! At Eatanswill there was combination of colours; one side was blue, the other buff; and Morris’ clever verses, The Whig poet his old buff waistcoat,” assume the orthodoxy unmixed buff —and presumably its later development, yellow—as the recognised ...

... factiousness Fox was seldom more dearly exemplified than the persecution Hastings; and set to the country, and above all the Whig party and their successors, evil precedent which has borne perpetual fruit down to the most modem instance—Lord Milner. And ...

... 3rd October, 1885, “the active men will have their own way, and the future Liberal party will Radical. I see nothing for the Whigs but to disappear or turn Tories.” If the Duke were still alive he would no doubt be equally correct in another prophesy—that ...

... The most popular portrait painter in Hungary. —Mr. Rudolphe Kiss. “It is common thing,” says a correspondent of the “Northern Whig,” “to see a magpie stand beside a duck to suck the egg after the duck has laid it.” Intelligent anticipation Eighty remounts ...