... that in the event of a liberal government being formed it was essential that the three great sections of that party—the old whigs, the Peelites, and the advanced liberals—should each be represented in it. Mr. Bright, who followed Lord John, spoke of the ...

... Under Anne and the first George we see how beneficial was the influence of the tory minority in checking the eagerness of a Whig ministry for war with France. The opposition put a stop to that American war of independence against which it were as useless ...

... best society all his life, closely connected with the Sutherlands, the Ilowards, the Cavendishes, and all the . indispensable whigs; vigorous, too, and well-informeda thoroughly teachable nun, without, as far as one can learn from his speeches, a single original ...

... more effective debater, does not exist. The appointment of Sir Charles Wood can be defended in few quarters, but he is an old whig official, and so far a representative man. It is generally thought Lord Elgin would have been better at the Colonial Office ...

... art of dinner The Ministers have experience and youth, ample debating powers and political influence, including Peelites, whigs, and radicals. The only question is whether, like some precocious children, they are not too clever to live ! The minor ...

... Samuel Whitbread, the brewer, celebrated by Peter Pinder, one of the few manufacturing firms allied to and permitted to share whig honours. He is under thirty years of age, but has been seven years in parliament, and is not expected to do anything extraordinary ...

... office without t Bright as a colleague. This only is certain, tha, for the present, there is a better feeling between the Whigs and Mr. Cobden and his party than has existed for a very long time. The place vacant by Mr. Colxien's refusal has been accepted ...

... Solicitor-General. Oa Saturday evening the learned gentleman was entertained at dinner by nearly every member of the Munster bar, whig, tory, and radical, at present in town, and numbering over sixty persons. A new submarine telegraph wire has been aid between ...

... attained than at present, has for five-andtwenty years been one of the most hardworking, respectable, and commonplace of the whig servants-of-all-work. He has been succiasively a Lord of the Admiralty, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, Under-Secretary ...

... demanded- by the friends of Sir Arthur. BiGtwies.—Both Mr. Richard llodgson, the Conservative candidate, and Mr. Marjoribanks, the Whig, arepursuing an active canvass. The stoniest pmmises to be close, but a sort of vigilance committee has been formed among ...

... having called the Prince Regent an Adonis, Leigh Hunt, in a fit of indignation at the Regent's having broken his promise to the whigs, added, of fifty. The Prince'a vanity triumphed over his discretion, and on the pretended grounds of some words of more serious ...

... his remarkable talents made him justly the chief of the British Museum. lle is extremely intimate with all the aristocratic Whigs, and a constant companion of Lord Palmerston. I saw hint, some years ago, come to one of Gavazzi's, the Italian Protestant ...