... Lady Susan Harriet, the only daughter of Alexander, tenth Duke of Hamilton. The father of the deceased Duke was an illustrious Whig statesman, and filled the office of Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1846 was Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1852 till ...

... THE GOVERNMENT AND THE OPPOSITION. •' An Old Whig wiiting to the Times oon- demus the line of action which has beea lately taken by the leaders of the Opposition in their public speeches outside Parliament, and which he says, is little relished by those ...

... in which be was held that he was (though himself a staunch Conservative) appointed to a vacant Mastership in Chancery by a Whig Government. On the abolition of the Masters' offioes he retired with a pension of .£2,500 a year. He will be lamented, not ...

... on the accession of the present Government to power. Mr. Gladstone's elevation to the Premiership and the formation of his Whig Radical Ca met gave the signal apparently to the Washington Government to press in more peremptory form for a speedy adjustment ...

... Re- porter commends the courage of the Irish Libe- rals who refused to go into the same lobby with the Noes, The Northern Whig observes that the extreme Liberals who voted agaiust tho second reading may excuse their conduct them- selves, and it does ...

... a |ief n«^ ioB . i* butbyreadin^f £ t on^.f.ae'l because well mfo'f Ilipo l I t^,;.» questions of Ins tt fc|k^ »£**£ was a Whig.and o %ific* ' tf^t |f ance of the P^P^ls ** • |E ...

... combat. The scene at the coronation banquet is minutely described by Sir Walter Scott, who was present on the occasion. Tbe Whigs, in their zeal for retrenchment and reform, docked the coronation of Eing William IV., in 1831, of thi- ancient ceremony, and ...

... intended to pave the way for disestablishment. The minority was a combination of heterogeneous elements, includ- ing the Whigs, the official Liberals and their followers, the Radicals, the representatives of the political Dissenters, the Irish Ultramontanes ...

... now on matters of vital de- tail be asking Lord Harlington to help him within the Cabinet, instead of urging that ex- hausted Whig from without to have the courage to declare himself. The essential attraction in Mr. Goschen is habit of thinking clearly and ...

... English people will never allow the education of the country to be Ultramontanised. God knows I haven't much faith in the Whigs, for the fellows would go any length for the Irish vote; and that confounded Disraeli is such & trimmer that he'd do anything ...

... its simplest terms, that the Radicals, in consideration of being allowed a few representatives, should combine to help the Whigs to office is as old as Liberal opposi- tion itself. There has not been a time in our history, the Liberal party being out of ...

... we are apt to forget by wbat a struggle of giants it had to be upheld, Tories maintaining tbe liberal view against Whigs, and such Whigs, too, as Fox. Burke, and Sheridan. In the session of 1790-91 Pitt concurred with Fox in maintaining tbe sound cons ...