... that office until the resignation of the Liberal Government in the autumn of 1841. He resumed it in the summer 1846, when the Whigs returned to power, and only resigned it to fill the vacancy on tho bench of the Court of Session which was occasioned by the ...

... have the effect of driving him from power. To this end they supported the Whigs; and on Sir Henry Parnell's famous motion put the Ministry into a minority, and eventually the Whigs into oifice. These last, however, were too shrewd not to perceive that their ...

... these announcements excites the reflection, how much pleasanter an importation is an elephant calf than a papal hull. How the Whigs Get Rid of the Public Dust.—Lord Seymour, answer to a question from Mr Hume as to the disposal of a sum of £1260, * explained ...

... distingubhed into Petitioners and AbhoiTers. Whig and Tory also were first used as terms of mutual reproach at thb time. Whigs were so denominated from a cant name given to the four Scotch conventiclers Whig being milk turned sour). The Tories were denominated ...

... Reform Bill. The Whigs had indeed long made Parliamentary Reform a part of their stock in trade; and Lord John himself had twice or thrice made a cold formal speech in Parliament on the question. But it was well understood that the Whig plan was merely ...

... private assurances, which were sincere, that the penal clauses bf the Emancipation Act would never be put in fovea. In 1831 the Whig Government gives notice, through Sir G. Grey, that the Government had determined to legislate on the Papal question, as the ...

... Withdrawn .3 Rejected - 4 7 -29 -71 County of Elgin.—Claims supported by Conservative agent and sustained, 16; do. by Whig agent, do. by parties themselves, 3; rejected and withdrawn, 3. Total 24. ...

... new converts, to make up for the loss of one or two of their leaders, who have gone over to the Free Trade side. But Whig against Whig is unmeaning and unusual, and can serve good end, except the squandering of a few thousands of pounds—a matter, however ...

... Irish members—to Free Trade—to anything, and everything a means of again throwing the country into confusion and expelling the Whig Cabinet. Cardinal Wiseman and his advisers, who had lately regained the position they had lest on the majority in favour of ...

... inherited. It was s Tory tradition that monarchical right was divine;. it was a Whig tradition that such right flowed from people. It was a Tory tradition to look to France; it a Whig tradition to look to Holland. These maxims didgood. in their day, but the ...

... on the subject in the Cabinet. The Morning Advertiser assures us, that within the last few days at least one member of the Whig administration had all but sent in his resignation, and that even now it is toss-up whether he will not retire before the first ...

... injury on tbe Catholic* the United Kingdom as they can pobibly be Induced to submit to; and the Tablet thank* God that the ' Whigs, at la*t, are *howing themselves to be what they »re—bigoted, cowardly persecutors, and swindlers all round, to all parties ...