... little speech which he delivered on receiving freedom of the Royal burgh of Nairn. He then calmly announced ~ that he was a Whig. Involuntarily parodying the remark of the living akelinton when they “shaved him,” he declared himself “proud of the name ...

... cause of the overthrow of the Whig Government was the tremendous wave of AngUcan enthusiasm which swept over the country in consequence of the ill-advised action of the Whigs in regard to the Sacheverell incident. the Whigs had been wise, the Assize sermon ...

... will as if his motive had been only the aggrandisement of his State. We have had plenty of men among usthey used to call them Whigs—who could do battle for freedom yet anarchists with as little pity a* the Emperor Frederick would have done. ...

... the offer the Premiership. And, considering the cause hi.s being compelled to decline it—the opposition, that say, of another Whig statesman just Unu, perhaps, at the lowest point unpopularity and discredit which ever touched—it is in the high- degree honourable ...

... some considerable Home Rule scheme for Ireland, and by coalition with the Irish Party to endeavour once more to “dish the Whigs.” But in 1885 the magician who alone could jiersuade English squires to leave undone all that they had been accustomed do, ...

... historian. Sir Williaw. gradually broke with the Radical associations of hie early youth and allied himself more closely with the Whig •ectiou of the Liberal party. In 1852 he joined the Ad* ministration of Lord Palmerston as Chief Commissioner of Works, and ...

... Lord Chancellor in that year, Sunderland Secretary of State in 1706, and the year 1708 the ministry was exclusively Whig. The Whigs were emphatically the war party; they were m favour wbat would be called spirited” foreign policy. The Tory party were ...

... of this dangerous belief is the concrete one—the existence of Lord Hartington himself. There yom have a true Moderate, a ** Whig,” as called himself at Nairn, whom both the parties allow to be competent to govern England, and who, if the Irish question ...

... policy exclusion. The old Ulster Liberal party was almost, if not quite, bad, and never one* returned Catholic to Parliament. Whig. Tory, working-man, employer—all these Ulster Unionists are much the same. Not one in 10 of them has the remotest conception ...

... grama fair proapact that tha Criminal Evidence Bill will at laat become law, aaya tha Saturday Rttita. Succeaaiva Chancel lon, Whig and Tory, have piloted it through the Lorda, but tha House Comroona waa alwaya too buay discuaaing tha affairs the univeraa ...

... 7«' High-street, Balhsm. Friday afteraoon found lying the «*» «“>«* with bottle conUimn* ojullc »oid rid*. hu been depreued Whig* Uttle time past, and is reported to have ...

... is that they should be suspected of being an aristocratic party, always for masters and against men,” a party like the old Whigs, with high principles and much intelligence, but entirely devoid of any popular sympathies. Such charge, however ill-founded ...