... 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 his lather’s reputation, as founder of the Mercury, than ids political talents ...

... resignation of ihe Secretary ship at War by Mr. Canning, Lord Palmerston took the vacant place, and tilled it until 1828. When the Whigs came into power, Lord Palmerston became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and represented South Hants, and ultimately ...

... Grey and Lord John Russell and Refoim. little -while the leadership ot the Whigs was placed m Lord John Russell's hands, and hard time it he had. ihe reaction came, and the Whigs were ; Lord Stanley had forsaken them, Sit James Graham had done the tame ...

... marked by a change of ministers; Lord Derby gave way Lord Palmerston, with 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 ...

... grounds where Addison, Charles James Eox, Eurke, Sheridan, Horner and Mackintosh, Rogers and Sydney Smith, Tom Moore, and every Whig celebrity between the times of Fox and Lord Melbourne, walked and talked, may be cut up into squares and terraces. If true ...

... in the country. Now have the two greatest legal authorities —two future Chancellors, if they live long enough—the courtier Whig and he real Tory, heartily uniting in a sweeping law reform—the result of the combined consultation of a la society which includes ...

... in 182 d, his essay on Milton, in the Edinburgh 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 Commissioner Bankruptcy, and iu 18.10 h« ontored ...

... advanced Liberal, and spent a fortune in con- 1 tested elections, and pushing a long deceased newspaper. Subsequently, his Whig friends made him Lord High Commissioner the lonian Islands, where he had to put down insurrection, and did it effectually, ...

... However much some of Mr. Ilorsman’s wit may have told, the feeling of the House, nevertheless, was that henceforth he was fallen (Whig) angel—the doors of the Paradise of Downiugstreet closed to him for ever. The Conservatives don't want any one to share their ...

... money. Ho was then about forty-four years of age, with a strong taste for applause, patronage, and public life. His wealth and Whig connections made him a peer, and he earned his honours, for he patronised everything, subscribed to everything, and became ...

... and with one of those fresh, ruddy, whiskerloss faces which make even old man look young. It was clear that he was a good Whig, and of old family, otherwise Lord John would have been a little less trieudly. It was also clear that he was in office, or ...

... weight the second port in the empire, was very important. inost important Whig opponent of the Budget was Francis Baring, who was, in some capacity or other, member of every Whig Government 1830 to 1852. His sou, also,, has Lord of the Admiralty. Sir Francis ...