... M'Neill was appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland. His teuure of office was terminated in April 1835 by the return ofthe Whigs place under Lord Melbourne. On the downfal of tbat administration in September 1841, Sir Robert Peel was again called to the ...

... indeed seem strange that the Whig party should be the weak and tottering condition it is. The mis. take he has made has been making so many members of his own family members of the executive ; so that under the regime of Whig law this country has been governed ...

... canvass the ex-Premier's Irish and Colonial policy; neither Ireland nor the Colonies present an aspect at all flattering to Whig legislation. As to the West Indian Colonists, so far from being able to find in improved methods of cultivation and manufacture ...

... National Gallery, than its present confined and miserable building. I really hope something will be done in this matter. The Whigs have always made great pretensions to the encouragement of Art in this ; but, as in most other things connected with that party ...

... rebel Hottentots, and then penetrating into the heart of the mountains. Sir Harry Smith had been sneered at by some of the Whig officials and writers as using hyperbolical language in reference to these campaigns, and in giving lavish praise to the officers ...

... false system of finance for even a single year. He had no choice. was a necessity forced upon him by the misgovernment of the Whigs; and the encomiums which have poured in upon him from all sides are no less condemnatory of those who forced that necessity ...

... through Committee has been a great triumph to Ministers; and contrasted with the unhappy fate of the militia abortion ofthe Whigs, shows how deservedly great the confidence reposed the ministerial capacity Earl Derby, and how little in that of Lord John ...