... ungraciously, treated the Duke of Wellington ; and in 1830 he joined the Whigs, with the more important appointment of Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He was now identified with the Whigs, and partook of their success and their disasters—their enjoyment and ...

... Sir Robert Peel, with that knack of picking up young men of promise, which so eminently characterised him, but of which the Whig leader is wholly destitute, took notice of, and provided him with apiece. One of these was a prepared and able speech on a ...

... none, pnd be kept sitting on those benches till somebody should give him one. He was so blind to the future that when the Whigs, utterly prostrate, yielded hint the government of the country on a colonial defeat in '3O, he did everytbing he could to avoid ...

... British or not is another ques tion be supposed to be inaugurated with his eo ccessor, that obstacle to their coalition with the Whigs has been removed; but there is still another which did not exist till last session, but which D ow presents no trifling difficulty ...

... the past policy of Lord John Russell, we shall have to look for the new life, and strength, and vigour to another infusion of Whig lordlings and Treasury hangers-on. And it is to be remembered that all the life, and strength, and vigour lately given to the ...

... Westminster continues to find favour and applause. Meantime, dismal rumours and whispers of a Ministerial break- up circle in tho Whig political atmosphere like ravens vultures over dying traveller. The Times for the last fortnight has been backing-up the Cabinet ...

... and the most persuasive in the Senate, the most ambitious, and all respects the most formidable man in the whole circle of Whig statesmen. The Cabinet of last session, which hardly survived it, now minus Lord Palmerston. It may not be a matter of much ...

... Disruption. Upon the question of his forzign policy—the question on which depended the sole difference between his party and the Whigs, for as regards domestic affairs they were thoroughly at one—it is well remembered, too, how be truckled to foreign powers ...

... atyle it *o, not merely on account of it* lucrative character, bat it aaved Mr Maeaulay from aharing the decline and Call of Whig popularity, which took place daring the five yeare that followed the paaaiug the reform bill. Mr Maeaalay only returned from ...

... opinion that changes are expected, but any material changes for the better scarcely hoped for. It is apparent, indeed, that the Whig Ministry is in a state of dissolution. The practice of selecting its members within a limited range of family connexions has ...

... Baird, the second baronet of 0 - e line, was born in 1795, and succeeded his uncle, the hero of Seringapatara in 1829. He was a Whig in politics and as such, at the general election in 1847, he dispuied the representation of Lothian with the present member ...

... milk. There is stuff in him, slid it is of time best sort. He is not all his life at hawk and buzzard whether he shall be a Whig or • Tory, a friend or a foe, a knave or a fool; but thinks that life is short, and that there is no time to play fantastic ...