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... Carlisle has the character of being a very a tmiable nobleman ; albeit a most incompetent statesnan. . e is the pet of the Whig aristocracy-both male and femsale, and occasionally edifes the frequenters of mo. chanics' institutes with lengthy'orations ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... perfectly the Irish and Canadian debates of 1837, who followed closely the course of the Chartist agi- tation, who knows how the Whig Ministry fell and was re- constructed in 1838 and 1839, and how it went out to make way for the Peel Cabinet in 1841, &c. &c ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... of the Shelburne mi- nistry, of the ill-fated coalition of Lord North and Fox, and of the dislike of the King for the great Whig statesman. Lord John Townshend's father told Lord Holland he had always foreseen the Coalition Ministry could not last, for ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... ~attached-~to 'peace; but noe ess to -the honour of the country, gave te his friends the moat patriotic counsel0 the great Whig party which he led broke off into tgo divisonst4he one-i~mbibe~d evesr-more than the minks those alarms of democracy which ...

DRAMA

... thermanners, and costumneof goodsocriety, and 'ra- the distinguished, although noot generally lucrative, post of the secretary to a whig member of parliament. Ha finds out a more discriminating and sympathising fair one in the per- son of Marian Lester, and beguiles ...

PROVINCIAL LIBERALITY AND PROVINCIAL ART

... non-conformity was then visited, down to the present day, most of their descendants have remained attached to Dissent, and to those Whig principles which were at that time so intimately connected with the cause of religious liberty. Mr Lombe Taylor's father was ...

LITERATURE

... came into power, no appreciable c~aanzeof policy took place-the Quadruple Al- f 3ice was not repudiated, the policy of the W~higs ?? tint abandoned, the claims of Don Caries and ou3liguel received no encouragement. And so ii has alwa~ys been. Thle exigencies ...

LITERATURE

... demande no exorbitant patriot- ism to go farther still, and. form a war-government irsespeo. tive ofparty. 'he distinctions of whig nod conservative are suspeuded for the time. No great measure of civil policy oould noW be entertained until thE national ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... likely at last to have a National Gallery, and under the same roof, our Royal Academy. I am sorry the Tories have let the Whigs do this. They have only voted about half the sum they ought.' Disparaging allusions to Reform,-' the Reform and Cholera, the ...

LITERATURE

... does hs,.with his popular predilections, attempt to prove that, in nmore recent days, all wisdom and virtue bore the name of whig, and all folly and profligacy that of tory. Like an honest instructor, he shows how snuc' of the goodI and evil of statesmen ...

THE ADELPHI THEATRE

... many years the repre. I sentative of the Cardigan District Boroughs, died on the Ist Iust., at the early age of 39. He was of Whig principles, Mr. W. S. Lindsay, M.P., left Paris on Friday I evecicig for Marseilles, and will probably extend his journey I ...

LITERATURE

... principles, of liberal, enlighltened, and disii-. terested views, but, above all, with men who are fiiends to .Ireland.-Iforthenn Wh/ig. DEATH OF THE RECORDER OF LEICESTER.-We Lregret that it is our duty to record the decease of Mr. John II Hildyard, who has ...