... after two months of parliamentary honours, is replaced by an old gentleman, who has grown in twenty years from a tory into a whig, and something more. At Cheltenham the Berkeley influence wanes, for there is a doubt as to. the return. At Dover we find that ...

... 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 ...

... Anson, a faithful whig, and that's alllike all the Ansons—as usual, represents Lichfield. Another Packe, a country gentleman, with the family prejudices against every kind of change, for South Lincolnshire. East Norfolk loses the whig-guardsman, Wyndham ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... John must have been the remembrance of what nine-and-twenty years had done for himself and his opponent. The son of a great whig-duke, one of the political powers of the state himaelf—the idol of the liberal party—their rising star—Lord John was on the ...

... as a reformer, aml the latter was fettered by party ties, and hail long been accustomed to look upon power as an appanage of whig statesmen. On the whole he preferred the present government, and would vote for the second reading if they undertook not to ...

... if the whig leaders were prepared to act on a new comprehensive system in the distribution of office, so as to include some of the independent members of the liberal party : he did not all, unconnected by blood or marriage with the old whigs. Mr. Sidney ...

... state of the utmost poverty and distress. But if we drift into war, no punishment will be too great for the ministry—be they Whig or Conservative—which allows us to do so. Italy asks France to help her to become free. As Englishmen we ought not to look ...

... working government than the present one, and we do not believe the country wants any more of the maladministration of the old Whig fan ...

... 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 ...

... commandant at Scutari, and recently one of the secretaries at the Horse Guards—understands business and the oriental character. The Whig clubs declare that Leed•Palmerston will have two hundred and fifty votes. On what question they don't say; and that is the ...