... vote of the Fremont party gives them a plurality over the Democrats of 25,000, and a majority over Democrats and old line Whigs of about 20,000; this, too, in the good old state of Maine, heretofore known as the Democratic Star in the East—think of ...

... remarkable alike for his oratorical talents and his long and consistent opposition to the measures of Sir Robert Walpole, the great Whig minister. On the 11th Feb. 1741, a time when party feeling was at its height. Walpole received an intimation in the House of ...

... Ministry should not be entrusted nominally to himself, but to one who will prepare the way for his Lordship, and his great Whig aristocratical confederates, to usurp the Government of the empire. IVe think it the duty of journalists to prepare the public ...

... says he is to be wholly responsible for the subject of education. The project is supported by men of all parties; by the Whig Lord Monteagle (Chancellor of the Exchequer when he was Mr. Spring Rice, but now Comptroller of the Exchequer, a very different ...

... have bun heard. I have got the particulars, of a little ministerial job, of which I must inform you. The Earl of Shelburne,* a Whig, a member for Cagle since 1837; and once, but only for a year, a Lord of the Treasury; has been raised to the Peerage, and ...

... conviction of the murderess. The facts of the appalling tragedy will be found embodied in the following extract from the Northern Whig, and, as that journal remarks, the annals of English crime in the rural districts contain nothing more foul than the details ...

... popular sentiment in favour of resistance to tyranny, and soon involved him in difficulty. He was deposed from office by the Whigs, to give place to William Livingston, and sent a prisoner to Connecticut, where he remained about two years in East Windsor ...

... conceived the best plan of remedying them, and so on. I presume, however, you can find room only for his propositions. The veteran Whig proposes to extend, revise, and consolidate the minutes of the Committee of Privy Council on Education; to add to the present ...

... man is the hon. member for Sheffield. He ought to know something about administrative reform, for he is the historian of The Whig Ministry of 1830, and he has been for years accustomed to examine political subjects in the pages of the Edinburgh and Westminster ...

... . On the 3rd of May, 1695, the law which had subjected the press to a censorship expired. Within a fortnight a staunch old Whig, named Harris, who had, in the days of the Exclusion Bill attempted to set up a newspaper, entitled Intelligence Domestic and ...

... forty-three years (for he was returned for Tavistock immediately on his obtaining his majority in 1813) he has been a consistent Whig, effecting more towards reform than if he had advocate! more Radical opinions. Though he has earned a title to repose, for ...

... time be has been tinder the cloud of public disapprobation. He at once relied on his forty years' character as a consistent Whig, to whom the public ewe much, and has been content, without reviling his opponents, though he has had irony in opportunity ...