... the Church of England, and in polities was a Whig of the old school: His family were long the agents of the Whig party at the old eleetions iniPreston. So prominently identified was his family with thes Whig party that they were never admitted in the ...

... passing of the Reform Act, discarded the old party name, and assumed the designation of Conservative. His opposition to the Whigs and to Reform was evinced to to such an extent that at the general election of 1830, immediately after the death of George ...

... and on account of his enlarged views and acknowledged abilities, and the support he had long and consistently given to the Whigs, he was invited by Earl Grey in 1830, when he received the royal commands to form an adminis- tration, to become a member of ...

... among the small but illustrious band of _ Reformers in the house ; he was long an active, a though not a forward, member of the Whig Op- position, for he soon attached himself to the for- a tunes of his own and his father's political friends. At v that time ...

... of parlihament was at the general election of 1807, when George the Third e dissolved parliament to get rid of Fox and the Whigs, and 5 by which he unfortunately sf cured a long lease of power I to Toryism, and its then attendants of political and comn- ...

... from the banquet hall to the great' Hall of Judgment, *as one of the shining lilhts and mfain stays of, the now almost effete Whig party. Like many other men of celebiity, it was his failure as a newspa. per man that opened the gates of success to him as ...

... Returning to England, and succeed. ing to the title of Lord Dundonald by his father's death, le was, on the accession of the Whigs to power in the ,first year of the reign of William IV. (1830), reinstated in his command in the British army, and made Rear-Ad- ...

... lecturers through the country; a few years afkerwards it raised a quarter of a million. Gradually the more ad- vanced of the Whigs gave their adhesion, and session after session the Parliamentary majority against Ml. Villiers became small by degrees and ...

... lesrs wages, anil inc negotiating for their services. Mr. W. P. Thornhill, one of the members for North D~erbyshaire, and a Whig, hai, announced his intention of retiring from Parliament at thle close of the present session. It it; antlioiitatively announced ...

... made his great forensic speech for the defendant in the celebrated case of Norton v. Lord Melbourne. On the return of the Whig party to office in June, 1846, after the resignation of the late Sir Robert Peel, Lord Campbell joined the Cabinet, and was ...

... represented Preston in the parliatment; of' 1710, 1715, 1728, and' 1735, His e nephew, Sir H enry, was a candidate on the *Whig or Derbyite interest, at the great election in 1768, along s with Colonel Burgoyne,- nd although they were not re- turned ...

... wlsesiho becam~ecretary for, the Colonies. ln both eaphoities hi~ e.nergy and eloquence bad been of signal service to theb Whig zGoverament. But in'-lS:' in conjunetion 'with Sir James Graham, the fluke of fRichmond, and Lord Ripon, ho separated from ...