... only three months before the resignation of the Ministry, upon which event he retired with his friends. On the return of the Whigs to office in 1846, Lord John Russell appointed him Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the seals of that office being ...

... Smith's joke as to the adaptability of Lord John Russell to any conceivable employment applicable to every member of every Whig Cabinet ? If so, happy is the country that can boast of being so governed ! Thus we might epitomise the views of ordinary ...

... further money from Parliament. Now, why did not Mr. Hardy do this ? Simply because the present Government, while accusing the Whigs of economy, have themselves adopted a policy which every sergeant in the Army cries out against as niggardly. If the only really ...

... India he dependent on their red•tape or folly. Let us not stake our existence on the November 6, 1875 n t unstable policy of a Whig or Tory War Minister. Let our G o verarn e be fairly grapple with the question whether the home army can dia, thoroughly relied ...

... present wouldbe reorganising talent. The Whigs want a revolution or two to stir them up. A fight in the streets, a triumph of order, a Tory Cabinet, and after that—not the deluge—but an honest and purified Whig Government • tl-en perhaps Indian rank will ...

... engineers ; wants Cardwell to make him aide-de-camp to the Queen, and thinks himself entitled; to a baronetcy for enabling the Whigs to abolish purchase. No, said my third friend, Give you my word, Jack told me the other dal the editor is a parson whose ...

... revolution of 'Eighty-eight, Englishmen have been careful to avoid anything which should savour of extremes. Nye'le most headlong Whig Administration has always had an to the Conservative drag on the hind-wheel of the coach. writer of weight has ever boldly ...

... Two Little Dickey Birds sat in a Tree, 383 Under the Crown, 671 Vanity Fair, 511, 542 Victoria Magazine, The, 510 Whig and Tory Administration, 702 Words and Places, 702 Young, E. D. Search after Livingstone, 262 Services in Parliament, The, ...

... suffered at the hands of the men who ignorantly worshipped the great idol Economy, and forgot the faith of the old gods of the Whigs. As yet the Civil Servants have every reason to be satisfied with the bouleversenzent which their influence has, in no small ...

... political opinions, along with his integrity, firmness, and faithfulness. Especially, like him, and like the older school of Whigs, he retained a firm hold of the principle of religious liberty in all its applications, and, though void of ambition and shunning ...

... separate departments. But it is said that the present Government prefers the system of giving high appointments to gentlemen with Whig connections, to that of promoting seniors in the India Office who have gradually risen from subordinate positions. A respectful ...

... Department on the suppression of his office, whilst all the officers under him have been handed over to the tender mercy of the Whigs, let it always be a scandal upon the memory of Sir John l'akington that he worshipped the great and trod upon the small. IT ...