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... there was one great point on which he sbowedno disposition to syinpathise with the Whigs. He was no friend to Parliamentary reform; and when in 1830 he joined the Whigs, and supported the Reform Bill, he probably did so quite as much from a conviction ...

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... opinion led the way. The fact is, it was the Whig element which preponderated iu the administration even after PITT'S death, and it required some circumstances which should display the differences between Whigs and Tories before they discovered that their ...

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... afterwards have seemed. Up to this time he had been in poli- tics, to use the now classical phrase of Mr. DENmAN, a Whig, and something more than a Whig. But up to this time MR. COrEY had known little of politics except as a disinterested, and perhaps rather ...

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... removed to the upper branch of the Legislature. lie voted for the Reform 3Bill, and all the nteasuiees emlanating from! the Whig Administrations, from Rarl OIrey Dp to Lord John Russell becoming First Lord of the Treasury. Several years back Lord Yarborough ...

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... ge;sra F St. tion, Mr. Tottie occupied a very eminent position in the eores borough as a professional man, a leader of the Whig party, Ater and a high-minded, public-spirited, and benevolent citizen, ties, Owing to his very advanced years, which had for ...

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... established the fame of its author as aarimenitary orCator. Pitt died ithin the year; with hisdeah hs prtywasbroen p, ndthe Whigs, under Fox.andGrevile, aineint ofice Inthis ministry, w~iohl University of Cambridge, in the psc of~ Pitt. The dara- tion of ...

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... lobby as if they were a regiment, and he the colonel. It would be absurd to say that a Whig Ministry is now in power carrying Whig measures by the strength of the Whig party. It would be foolish to pretend that ther is a Conservative Opposition determined ...

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... -Lord Palmerston was a joeose poet of an order only inferior to Canning. His (Lord Palmerston's) contribu- tions to the New Whig Guide are admirable specimens of racv, good-humoured satire: but the Afthomewa is quite at fut m intinating its belief that ...

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... remedy. Thqe Whigs were at the time singularly destitute of financial l ability, and the Tories, though blessed with a leaner of more than ordinary sagacity in such matters, were as a body even more prejudiced and ignorant than their Whig rivals. It may ...

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... November, 1834, Sir Robert Peel assumed the reins of Government, and Lord Brougham resigned office with his colleagues, The Whig Ministry of Lord Melbourne, however, returned to power in the following April, but Lord Brougham was niot reappointed to the ...

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... on Dissenters for the exclusive benefit of the Estab- liehed Church. In politics, he was a sincere and earnestl Whig, looking to the Whig party to carry out faithfully |a the great reforms he shtove in his own sphere to promote. IC But if there was one ...

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... ministry in 1852, the Earl of Aberdeen was celled upon to form an ti adiitain, which he did by inducing a coslitobe2 ' tween the Whigs and the followers of Sir Robert Peel ; ad- it inintitting one Radical (Sir William Moleeworth) to the y loni- Cabinet, and ...