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... PROPORTION OF WHIG AND TORY PEERAGES. The ‘charge which has been made against the Conservative Governments of msking an proportion of peers admits of a very decisive an- swer. Mr. Disraeli, Lord Derby, and Sir Bobert Peel held power altogether for nine ...
... The Late Mr. Thackeray axi> the Templars.—Mr. Edmund Yates, writing to the Belfast Whig, says :—-Yon will not be surprised at my again commencing this week with an allusion the late Mr. Thackeray, for so great a man furnishes topic for more than the ...
... people of Mold that he could remember when, Whig baby, he was taught to look on a Dissenter as much in the same category murderer, and on Dissenting chapel as a den of iniquity to be quickly passed by. The Whig babies of alatergeneration.had not tliese|feeling* ...
... sagacity of b acceptance of sound measures. and his frank timus maximus of the Lyndhurst, th ® Jupiter op all Whig measures as House of Lor ds, fought Whig measures, striking with impartial thunder- and bolt the usefal an d the pernici ous, the the bad. So the ...
... Viscount Melbourne, very pronounced Whig, was then office. The Whig Prime Minister thought so highly of Sir Henry's abilities that he appointed him in August,* 1341, attache at St. Petersburg. Lord John Russell, another Whig, who took office July oth, 1840 ...
... hundred ago. The Whigs had persistently refused to anything, although in power for many years during the reign of tbe two first Oeorges; but the Liberals of to day ignore what history thus Caches, and the Tories axe blamed for bios 'the Whigs. So was it in ...
... instrument of public opinion. Wuic v. Tory.—The Whig has his dogmas; the Tory has histraditions. The Whig isa politiosl doce trinaire ; the Tory is a political devotee. believes in the divin origin of ‘* liberal The Whig and is ever ready to cure ‘‘ the something ...
... of popular liberties the matter of a solid and comprehensive suffrage, than their noisier and most boastful opponents, the Whigs. He instanced the efforts of Pitt in the cause of reform so far baok 1782, and urged that, had it not been for the excesses ...
... morning she led party of Whigs to the spot where her husband was concealed. It was a hut made of shingles, built upon a small island in the centre of a swamp, where the gloomy cypress and thick undergrowth overshadowed the spot. The Whig party lay in ambush ...
... during the almost three-quarters century during which the Whigs were in power from the Revolution. Mr. Pitt, the younger, a Tory, tried again and again to improve matters, but Mr. Pox and the Whigs opposed him. It may amuse, if not interest, our readers ...
... least is oertaio, that the ruling families who have ruled since 1832, have been Whigs ; for of Conservative ruling families there have absolutely been none, and these Whig ruling families must have been immensely popular, or they would not have been applauded ...
... within days. Ihe Naval Commi'tee has reported a bill for the construction of twenty mail-clad steam gunboats. i'hv Richmond Whig, alluding the sinking of vessels i Charleston Harbour, says the North has taken the first step towards makiog Charleston an ...