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... the tender ground on which they tread, and that if the W'higs now fall, it will be for ever —that there would be no hope of resuscitation for them. The country is pretty well disgusted with Whig chicanery and misrule; there will be no more botching for ...
... his essay on Milton, in the Edinburgh Review, drew upon him the attention of the entire reading public. The leaders of the Whig party, in acknowledgment of his literary superiority, appointed Mr. Macaulay a Com- missioner of Bankruptcy, and in 1830 he ...
... Lord John Russell and Reform. In a little while the leadership of the Whigs was placed in Lord John Russell's hands, and a hard time of it he had. The reaction came, and the Whigs were unpopular Lord Stanley had forsaken them, Sir James Graham had done ...
... a change of ministers; Lord Derby gave way to Lord Palmerston, with a broad-bottomed following, for it included, with old Whigs, the best remains of Peel and a few decided Radicals-indeed, one Quaker, a professor of peace principles, not in the Cabinet ...
... ministry composed as it is of men of all political shades—the semi-Conservative, the tergiversating aristocratic Premier, the Whigs Lord John Russell and Sir G. C. Lewis, and the ultra-Kadical Milner Gibson, the bosom friend of John Bright t If they have ...
... success, and of that of a still greater man before him, Sir Robert Walpole, who kept the Hanover family on the throne and the Whigs in office for many years. HIS ORATORY. A thing very remarkable in the House of Commons is the decline of oratory. It is common ...
... money. He was then about forty-four years of age, with a strong taste for applause, patronage, and public life. His wealthl-and Whig connections made him a peer, and he earned his honours, for he patronised everything, subscribed to 'everything, and became ...
... a very respectable lawyer, who had been President of the Poor Law Board, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under the Whig Governments. He was a contemporary of Macaulay at Cambridge, and took a respectable degree, but owed his position rather to ...
... brother, George IV., made him for a short time Lord High Admiral. But some of the same sort of influence that made that devoted Whig, experienced turfite, and aristocratic leg, General Anson who had never served with any regiment since, as a sub- altern, he ...
... when the Government made him Secretary to the Board of Control for India; and secured his tblents for the service of the Whigs. '1 his appointment was the best party move in our generation. He went to India for fortune, and came back to Eng- land for ...
... with one of those fresh, ruddy, Whiskerless faooa -wlxich make oven an old man look young. It was clear that he was a good Whig, and of an old family, otherwise Lord John would have been a little less friendly. It was also clear that he was in office ...