... at foriccing a ministry, on tice score that a few Whig ladies at thi court would have been more than a match for the cabinet at ani Whitehall. On It was thus that, after a brief succession, the Whigs once irr, more rescuned their places otn the treasury ...

... array of youthful aspirants cast their fortunes, or as was then thought thle sacritice of their professional hopes, with the Whig party-when h1arry Erskine, Clerk, Giilies, Cath cart and othiers, were joined by Cranstoun, Jeffrey, 'Mon- creif', Cockburn ...

... political struggles of this country from 1792 downwards, and was on terms of intimacy with Fox and most of the leaders of the old Whig school. As an acknowledgment of the services which he rendered to that party, he was created a baronet in 1831 by the go- vernment ...

... verdict of I shouting Whigs and Tories, Mr. Doherty put forth his gla- r diatorial challenge, and invited a wrestle. He was partially , gratified. O'Connell pinned him to the earth, and from that inauspicious night the voice of the Whig Goliath was rarely ...

... Scottish bar in 1799, and through life was a consistent supporter of the principles of Fox-in short, a zealous constitutioloasal Whig. When the project w.a mooted, about the year 1825, of effecting two leading public improvernents in Edinbturgl, viz. thle approach ...

... aid of what he considered to be a righteous cause. He was appointed a Junior Lord of the Treasury on the acces- sion of the Whigs to office in the year 1830. In that capacity he introduced the bill for the abolition of certain oaths which it was formerly ...

... usual zoal and ardoer to acquire a fresh auxliary in the person of the Duke of Cambridge. He wan ciurled alike by Tory and by Whig. On the one band tie was solicited by Fox, Sheridan, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex, asid the Duchess of Dovonshire-on ...

... victim. to the cares of office. Vice-Presidenlt PRILL1IMOE now succeeds, by virtue of his office. He is what is termed there a Whig, that is, of the Conservative party; he is a Protectionist in the extreme sense of the word, and that is what the cunning citizens ...

... and, as I expect to find many of those now holding .to be honest, good men, and as the new appohitments will, of course, be Whigs, that will bring about this result. Although I do not intend to allow an indiscrinlinate removal, yet it grieves me to think ...

... Sir R. Peel's government was beaten on more than one question. On the 8th of April, he and hsis colleagues resigned, and the Whigs returned to power, which they retained until 1839, but with gradually diminishing majorities, until at length they were virtually ...

... not fortming a ministry, on 'tle li score that a few' Whig ladies at court would have been more than a match for the cabinet at Whiteball. o0 It was thus tbat, after a brief succession, the whigs iD once more resumed their places en the treasury bence ...

... opposition to the Whigs, Wle do not pretend to follow the course of this opposition in its mi-C nute details. Fur the first two or three years it comprised n- a sistance, first to the reform measure itself, and then to the measures whicb the Whigs introduced ...