... little Bill is accepted for the sake of its political parent i A NEW LABEL FOR LIBERALS. I HEAR there is a movement among the Whigs to change the I name of the Liberal Party. The}' I want to call themselves the Free I Trade Conservatives, and are quite I ...

... which fascinated Burns, was published in 1776, but its spirit is extraordinarily modern. Like some modern politicians, he bids Whig and Tory all agree and he bars dull Italian lays just as some of us denounce jazz: which only proves that the spinr oi irue ...

... long ago could be just as modern. Anyhow there is a letter which would suggest as much in Mabell, Countess of Airlie's, In Whig Society.. The letter was written by ill-starred Lady Caroline Lamb, who became Lady Melbourne, and who figures in the many-sided ...

... still play bridge and exchange modest wagers there. In old days, nothing was too trivial for a wager vide the old books. No Whig, of course, would have shown his face there in the days when polities were carried bitterly into home life. Charles 'Fox dis ...

... did a quarter of a century ago Almost equally grotesque is the im passioned defence of the Corsican by our own philosophic Whigs like Lord Rosebery though the funniest thing of all has been the physical imitation of the Emperor by some individuals, even ...

... of India be any better off if governed by a small hative oligarchy England didn't do too. badly under the oligarchy of the Whigs, but we had no racial problem, and we managed to muddle through our religious difficulties. Then the question of defence. If ...

... reference without which no gentleman's library is complete. When old John Debrett, the Piccadilly bookseller, favoured by the Whigs, started his famous peerage in 1784, it needed but three small volumes of 400 pages each to-day it has blossomed into a teeming ...

... intensified by division and subdivision in its own ranks. The Labour Party itself is politically as sharply divided as ever Whig and Tory were divided. Leadership, policy, authority, are denied it through the suspicion and intrigue which rend its component ...

... help from his Ministers, gratified Lord Morley by describing him as the only representative left in the Cabinet of the old Whigs. Lord Morley, it should be said, was always particularly scrupulous in consulting the King's personal feelings so as to avoid ...

... , he having written so caustically against pensioners, he replied that he wished it were twice as large, in order that the Whig dogs might have howled twice as loudly. And the pension the doctor received was something like a pension-- £300 a year, equal ...

... did a quarter of a century ago Almost equally grotesque is the im passioned defence of the Corsican by our own philosophic Whigs like Lord Rosebery though the funniest thing of all has been the physical imitation of the Emperor by some individuals, even ...

... can threaten action in combination with the Conservative opposition. Two historic examples were the threatened revolt of the Whigs against Lloyd George's land taxes in the People's Budget, which successfully emasculated them, and the actual revolt of the ...