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... progress of stirring national events. He early manifested advanced tendencies at a time when it -was considered advanced to be a t Whig:; but be was in advance of his time, i and during his public career he remained so. He was a staunch Presbyterian, and throughout ...

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... manu'namme,' ?? J ohn Russell has alwrays maintained that-it had the effect of destroying the synnetry of,ethe Whig-measure, and. .frbsstrating W~hig sipectateon in the counties. The Duke- the :Marqub-stoo d forward 'as the 'county' 'member and farmer's friend ...

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... r and from this period to 1841 be took an active part, under F Sir Robert Peel, in battering the lame Government of the ? Whigs. 'When Peel entered upon office Mr. Herbert Wa, r e appointed Secretary to the Admiralty, and soremained until, in 1845, he ...

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... Adnaira3Iy,sad~the -spai ?? refer. boihserpex d~'L, 'tuirS of those dsye-sasthe naodelfoioues, 'T Sia..ekiu. ' I) Iftom tie Whigs vith Mr. Stanley. andl gradually came, .;rausud . to.Ajhq: sldDryDilly? -till. he joinedih bil paity Lofflir.Robert Pleel- ...

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... -accesaion. to bbigrapi~c jlierature, wihich.'he still further errich6d bv giving 'to. tbe puhito bii C ?? of Engld. TAZ ?? of the Whig party.,to power' In 1846 reiored Lord Campbell to odifeo as ' 9t119g 9JeDgvb.,f Ln--. caster, and- as a eumber of the Itassell ...

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... ricer Clyde. Mr. ?? vas a most consistent l oliticiaL Te never forsook| a his fis love- the people. Ie was no time-serving Whig,I 1 but .at the same time carefully avoided 'violent extremes. I Ph'siical force formed no portion of :llai ~creed, In private ...

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... matters anrl salaries, dawned upon the practical mind of the Anglo-Saxon race. A new political group took its seat beside the Whigs and the Tories. Henceforth it never quitted the House of Commons. There it acquired its rank, its influence; there it caused ...

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... coveted sent. There was agood deal of bitterness shown ainthe coutest, and.Mr M'Laren brought an action of libel against a Whig journal. He was awarded £500 damages, ,and the money he handed over to the governors of Heriot's Hospital to be invested, thme ...

EVANGELICAL UNION CONFERENCE

... temptations, they were bound be consistent, and use the power God bad given to pat down these temptations. was not speaking a Whig Tory, member of any political party ; but they must look the matter the face, and hoped the conference would give forth no ...

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... his latest public the acts was to head a section 'of the Conservative party in Edin- burgh, in canvassing and polling for the Whig-Radical, Bailie and Brown-Douglas, on the ground' of his pledges to vote for the raff, abolition of the Maynooth grant. rit; ...

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... Suffolk, could not be other thlion a foremost man in a social and political point of dcxv. a The Duke of Hamilton's father wvas a Whig of the oil school, and probably one of the haughtiest men of his day. He cherished an idea that he was the legitihuato King ...