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MR. EVELYN ASHLEY'S LIFE OF LORD PALMERSTON

... of Canning with the Whigs; and it is- curious to find in a letter of Lord Palmerston to his brother, dated May 4,. 1827, a description of the behaviour of the Whigs differing very widely indeed from the account given of it by the Whig leaders themselves ...

LITERATURE

... Parliament by doubting the possibility of its containing an impartial member. The first act of the Whigs, says the pamphlet:- The first act of the Whigs, on the meeting of Parliament in 1835, was to oppose the re-election ?? Charles Manners Sutton (now ...

Published: Sunday 29 August 1841
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2155 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE VOICE FROM THE GALLERY

... announcement was exceedingly great. Men looked at each other, . and many.drew from this. event an inference that the .sun f the Whigs was. soon about. to set for ever. The agce of. Mr. Abercrombie is ouly,63, of which. 32 have been passed in parliament. His ...

THE LIFE OF LORD SHELBURNE.*

... we think, calls Chathamite Whigs. The position of this little knot of statesmen between the two main parties in the State corresponds to that occupied by the Peelites after the death of Sir Robert Peel. They were not Whigs and they were not Tories, and ...

CABINET RESOLUTIONS TO SATISFY THE COUNTRY

... dodging,' 'Tis Goveroment that gets the bnard, The paupers only get the lodging:- Rlesolred, we hereby all agree With true Whig unainiity, We're very grieved te be, we're sure, At such expense to starve the poor, But beg to state (if 'tisn't nonsense) ...

SONGS OF THE TORIES

... Hastings, Witih Forester, Milton, and Moore, We'll defy the foul lriihman's bastings, And hunt that gaunt wolf from the door. No Whig shall be sufier'd among us, To chat by the gay covert side; No radical sportsmen shall throng us, Or presume in our presence ...

SONG

... tiful spot. cronus. Yet England's a country whose face is de- lightful; We ne'er see its equal wherever we roam: Though vile Whigs and Tories have made it so frightful, We ne'er can forget that it once was our home. There's the Churth, with its Bishops, ...

SHERIDAN

... seemed to indicate that his political career was at an end. The new leader of the Whig party was not the man to sympathize with Sheridan as Fox had done. The new ally of the Whig party, Lord Grenville, was still less so. Sheridan, indeed, had the Prince of ...

THE CANDIDATE'S ADDRESS TO HIS CONSTITUENCY

... Pranier thwarted_ Ad Both Whigs and Tosics have I served, And both have I suppofted. Nevcr have I with factious vote Opposed ill' Administration Grey, Melbourne, Peel, nre all alike, o Thle servants of the nation. f Aand how the Whigs rewarded me, Just now ...

THE LIFE OF LORD SHELBURNE.*

... never to have forgiven his master for the part which he played on this occasion. The Ministry was made up of Chathamites, Whigs, and King's friends, and on Shelburne fell the whole labour of maintaining the influence of the first: The representative ...

THE FOLLOWING CHEERING SONG IS TO BE SAID OR SUNG AT ALL TORY FEEDS DURING THE RECESS

... knife they glory, Nor is Shaw of O'Connell less lauda- Tory. King Oastler is free, by his late discharge, To rail at the Whigs and the laws at large. He seems in the mass (not high mass) to glory, And in making his subjects contribu- Tory. Rise, Maidstene ...

LITERATURE

... represent the Whigs of 1688, and the Whigs of to-day the Tories ef that day. A very unsupportable paradox it is, based upon a jumble of names, and eked out by sophisms, to prove nothing, after all, but a certain use and collocation of words. The Whigs of 1688 ...