... middle age, that he became M.P. for Lis native town. Hr. Baines, senior, was a Whig, for the Wbigs abolished the Test and pension Acts, the Whigs made Leeds a borough, the Whigs made Mr. Baines an IJ.P., and the present H.P. for Leeds still retains that ...

... to the state of such taxes. It is evident that if the franchise is to be extended in this manner the boasted theory of the Whig Government, that representation and taxation should go hand in hand, must be abandoned. The Ministers are in a chaos of confusion ...

... REGINTER, MODERN STATESMEN; ore, SKETCHES FROM THE STRANGERS' GALLERY OF THE HOUSE OF OOMMONS. EDWARD BAINES. LORD IiOLLAND was a Whig nobleman, and we dare ay gave, on appropriate °cessions, the Liberty of the Press. Tom Moore was a gentleman of the press, ...

... He professes to be a moderate Conber4tive. The other canoidates were Mr. Skipton, moderate Whig, and Mr. Greer ultra Liberal, • 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 bad irreverently nicknamed Sir Cherie!. The relationship of the latter to the Whigs wan shortly to become more agreeable. Lord Howick went up to the House of Lords, in the room of his father, deceased. The Whig* were out of office ...

... men especially obnoxious to the Liberal majority in the Commune, and to the popular party throughout the country—the one, a Whig sinecnriA ; the other the very champion of aristocratic privilege against the rights of the people. Ali technicalities apart ...

... correct Tug New York Dibwie, to show the licence of the press, quotes a passage from the I:ooze:lie Whig respecting Attorney-General Black. The editor of the Whig says:— We took a look at hint, and we don't hesitate to say that in his countenance we could ...

... in 1826, his essay on Milton, in the L RYdew, draw upon him the attention of the entire reacting public. 'fbe leaders of the Whig party, in acknowledgment of his literary superiority, appointed Mr. Macaulay a Coin- I niasioner of Bankruptcy, and in 1830 ...

... residin3 at Mickleton Hill, near Doncaster, be was first returned for the Lincolnshire boroegh of Great Grimsby in 1826, on the Whig interest. In 1831 he lost that seat, but found another at Wareham, in Dorsetshire. When the frenohioe was onnfarre I on the ...

... created in the representatioi. the city of Londonderry by the death of Sir Ferguson, an old and faithful follower of Irish Whig Liberal party. The event took Tuesday iu Dublin at the Ileum+ of a relative, %here had been reswiding since the commencement ...

... Co govern the plumage. The alleged country y means of plumage, upholding by them un- two armies with separate fair means the Whig influence among the consult. ame sovereign might be uvula. Never had a grosser Malt been offered Ida wee an empire of Itself ...

... the second port in the empire, was very important. The most important Whig opponent of tha Budget was Sir Francis Baring, who was, in some capacity or other, a member of every Whig Government from 1830 to 1852. His son, also, has been a Lord of the Admiralty ...