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... middle age, that he became M.P. for Lis native town. Mr. Baines, senior, was a Whig, for the Whigs abolished the Test and Corporation Acts, the Whigs made Leeds a borough, the Whigs made rtlr. Baines an M.P., and the present M.P. for Leeds still retains that ...
... He professes to be a moderate Conservative. The other candidates were Mr. Skipton, moderate Whig, and Mr. Greer ultra Liberal, a Radical from the start. The Whig nowhere on the poll, and thenceforward it was a gallant race between Messrs. M'Cormick and ...
... man Friday—as the Whigs had irreverently nicknamed Sir Charles. The relationship of the latter to the Whigs was shortly to become more agreeable. Lord Howick went up to the House of Lords, in the room of his father, deceased. The Whigs were out of office ...
... show the licence of the press, Quotes a passage from the Knoxviile Whiff re- specting Attorney-General Mack. The editor of the Whig says:— We took a look at him, and we don't hesi- tate to say that in his countenance we could see mingled the virtues of the ...
... in, and the reforir Ministry were ingloriously driven from power. How ever, the principle of political reform once admitted Whigs and Tories have alike endeavoured to make political capital out of it. Last year Mr. Disrael brought in a Reform Bill; this ...
... largest garrisons are at Venice and Verona. THE REPRESENTATION OF NEWCASTLE-ON- TYNE.—Mr. Somerset Beaumont, brother to the Whig member for South Northumberland, and connected with the extensive banking firm of Messrs. Lambton and Co., offers himself in ...
... the weary conflict cease, My pledge at last will be redeemed, and I shall be at peace. And when Reform is set at rest, the Whigs will haply say: x A the tie, the tie is broken between us and dear Lord Grey. FOR THE ORERA STALLS.—So Mario and Mongini take ...
... men especially obnoxious to the Liberal majority in the Commons, and to the popular party throughout the country—the one, a Whig sinecurist; the other the very champion of aristocratic privilege against the rights of the people. All technicalities apart ...
... 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 ...
... most prominent is Lord Qverstone—also a great financial authority,-who joins Lord Monteagle and Sir Francis Baring, two former Whig Chancel- lors of the Exchequer, in resisting the abrogation of this profitable tax. But it is to the strong declara- tion of ...
... THE REVIVALS IN THE NORTH, The Northern Whig gives the following account of the suicide of a Heviyal preacher in Coleraine, at the close of last week: William M'Beth, the unfortunate victim., was for many years known in Coleraine as of very indifferent ...