... two years after her acces sion. Party feeling ran high between the Whigs and Tories, and by the latter Queen Victoria was accused of unduly favouring their rivals, and especially the Whig Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. The Queen, unfortunately, had spoken ...

... one of the greatest gentlemen belonging to any period in our history. If he was born to office, in the sense in which great Whig peers long ago could be justly so described, he had great abilities, both general and administrative, and he held a variety ...

... Feather. And then politics began to take every man by the throat, and it was no longer possible without blood-letting that Whig could associate with Tory. The Taverns j perforce must choose their colour and i tr* if Thp Whiu was 'efnsed 1 admission (for ...