... Colborno. 1840 Mr. Miles Stapleton obtained in bis favour revival of the ancient barony of Beaumont, and Sir Jaoob Astley, tho Whig M.P. for Norfolk, that of Hastings. 1841 English baronies were conferred on the Scotch Earl of Stair and the Irish Earl of ...

... for the appoiutment of the Sebastopol Committee, when the Pcelites deserted the Premier, who reinforced his ranks with the Whig leader, then on his road to Vienna, as the English plenipotentiary at the Conferences. Here, again, the noble lord was unfortunate ...

... the idea that the war has been undertaken for the benefit of Austria, not for the protection of Turkey The Alice Grey of a Whig contemporary is certainly playing her new part adroitly. It is said that ten days were to be allowed for the consideration ...

... the last thirty years, by the misrepresentation of successive English Governments, and above and before all others , of the Whig Cabinets. Now, it seems to have been by virtue of a I special Providence that there arose that peculiar combination of cir ...

... Macaulay is himself one of the athletes. He is what he is, because William was what he was. He regards the past history of the Whigs with a feeling much more akin to filial piety than to philosophic approval or even political admiration. Then, should party ...

... inquiry will ever be a memorable chapter in British history, and some future historian, more honest and philosophical than the Whig BARNUM MACAULAY, will turn to it after the coming Reform Bill has been won, for the purpose of exhibiting an oligarchy in its ...

... Church has received from her Divine Lord and Head. WHIG PURITY AND ADMIRALTY PATRONAGE. The notorious fact that no merit van enter into competition with political patronage under the immaculate rule of the Whigs, has elicited from Rear Admiral, in a letter ...

... vistas at being Lord-Lieutenant of Invernees.a?sre. an office to which he, too, wat appointed out of his turn. Lord Gleneig, a whig, ahosold have obtained that office. He was a man of ability, and rendered good service to the Mel- bourne administration. But ...

... charge to goods previously too highly taxed for purposes of revenue vas the means of checking consumption, and rendered the Whig budget abortive. Good, however, arose out of the temporary evil, as the miscalculation led to Sir R. Pases free-trade measures ...

... the policy of the war were divided, and, thanks to a bed-chamber intrigue in the court of Queen Anne, Marlborough and the Whigs were turned out of office, and the Treaty of Utrecht was hastily agreed to, by which the Allies obtained less than they set ...

... never appears is public; seldom ever attends in the House of Lords; bat, whenever negotiations are on foot that concern the Whigs, His Grace's same is thrust forward. The immediate cause of Lord Palmerston's visit to a man so astute mid wary, is said to ...

... will produce. The work of i the old political eystem luxe been accomplished—the old j parties are worn out—the days of the Whigs and Tories are gone for ever and vain will be all attempts to galvanise i these corpses. Fresh interests, new problems rise ...