... declined to accept Sir Henry Hoare as their candidate. They may go further and fare worse. Sir Henry is a connecting link between Whigs and Radicals, a ready speaker, and an excellent canvasser. I NEVER thought that Mr. Chaplin would make his mark in politics ...

... peerage, in order that his Parliamentary labours might be lightened. Not yet, I think not yet, was the answer of the great Whig statesman. His friends pressed it upon him, but he firmly rejected the proposal. The peer:l , v, to be sure, he remarked ...

... in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. A more correct description, perhaps, would have been : I ain't a Whig, I ain't a Tory, I'm jest a candidate in short. Unfortunately, however, it is difficult, as a rule, to persuade constituencies ...

... Very low, indeed, the tone is, parties, In the columns of these journals; And it grows each week still lower. 'Mongst the Whigs and 'mongst the Threatening penalties most direful, Soon, if there be no improvement, Tories, Swearing vengeance most tremendous ...

... now what the dodge is Tories by the half-a-dozen, That's been settled at the meeting Rose and taunted Mr. Gladstone; Of the Whigs and Mr. Gladstone. Radicals were still more savage For scarce had this fierce young At his unexpected weakness. member,— Janus ...

... enacted in our own Parliament after the rejection of the Reform Bill by the House of Commons in 1831. It being suspected that the Whig Ministry intended to dissolve, the Tories at once moved an address to the King, protesting against such a step. This would ...

... political greatness. Once the right hon. gentleman was a High Churchman; subsequently he became a Low Tory, a Peelite, a demisemi Whig, and then what was called a Liberal. He abandoned the leadership of his party to fell trees, and write religious pamphlets ...

... were the; word snob, in the above sense, is confined to Tories, discussing this matter the other day, cut us short by The Whigs, for many years, spoke of Mr. Disraeli in the observing, that a snob is a person who does not want to same way, in the same ...

... On this last point., the Liberal party will have plenty to occupy their energies, should Lord Beaconsfield again dish the Whigs. No doubt, our future constituencies would much resemble the French arrondisements ; and, acute as M. M. De Moray and Persigny ...

... , that, beyond the moral resemblance of Charles X. to James IL, there was no analogy between the situation of the English Whigs and the French Liberals, whom he headed. When the latter went so far as they did, they ought to have gone farther. M. Thiers ...

... troubles. Every one remembers the famous passage in Sybil, looking at which, and to the Thurso plaint, it would seem that the Whig leaders have been travelling in a circle for the last forty years. We don't dine our men half enough. Now, Blugsby was just ...

... basis. The profession of Home Rule principles was the sole test for admission; its portals were alike open to Tory, Radical, or Whig. Isaac Butt was the heart and soul of this new organisation, assisted by a very few clergymen, Catholic and Protestant, as ...