... Returning to England, and succeed. ing to the title of Lord Dundonald by his father's death, le was, on the accession of the Whigs to power in the ,first year of the reign of William IV. (1830), reinstated in his command in the British army, and made Rear-Ad- ...

... made his great forensic speech for the defendant in the celebrated case of Norton v. Lord Melbourne. On the return of the Whig party to office in June, 1846, after the resignation of the late Sir Robert Peel, Lord Campbell joined the Cabinet, and was ...

... from the banquet hall to the great' Hall of Judgment, *as one of the shining lilhts and mfain stays of, the now almost effete Whig party. Like many other men of celebiity, it was his failure as a newspa. per man that opened the gates of success to him as ...

... and on account of his enlarged views and acknowledged abilities, and the support he had long and consistently given to the Whigs, he was invited by Earl Grey in 1830, when he received the royal commands to form an adminis- tration, to become a member of ...

... represented Preston in the parliatment; of' 1710, 1715, 1728, and' 1735, His e nephew, Sir H enry, was a candidate on the *Whig or Derbyite interest, at the great election in 1768, along s with Colonel Burgoyne,- nd although they were not re- turned ...

... passing of the Reform Act, discarded the old party name, and assumed the designation of Conservative. His opposition to the Whigs and to Reform was evinced to to such an extent that at the general election of 1830, immediately after the death of George ...

... he was unsuccessful. Fortune was, however, more propitious a few months afterwards, when the Radical candidate displaced the Whig scion of the House of Stanley, and none were prouder of their share in the victory than Mr. Hoffman, who, having been one of ...

... closeso- of --yer parhia'Ie'i. tary sessiilo i1' the mos severe and caustio Manner, the progress made in legielation by the Whig'Government, be soon forgotten. In 1846 he finall. 'r'tlred 'fro 'offlce. His apee~ deierei during the last fev years, npou ...

... lecturers through the country; a few years afkerwards it raised a quarter of a million. Gradually the more ad- vanced of the Whigs gave their adhesion, and session after session the Parliamentary majority against Ml. Villiers became small by degrees and ...

... lesrs wages, anil inc negotiating for their services. Mr. W. P. Thornhill, one of the members for North D~erbyshaire, and a Whig, hai, announced his intention of retiring from Parliament at thle close of the present session. It it; antlioiitatively announced ...

... candidate of the Conservatives. The Hon. H. T. Stanley, second son of the lite, and brother of the present, Earl of Derby, als the Whig or Liberal candidate. Mr. Hunt was again in the field on the Radical interest, and he brought with him a Captain Forbes, R ...

... passing notice. He fair wa-a born in the yeiir of our II'great electiont, and awhile that keen and important contest between Whigs and ab Tot ies,-between the House of Stanley on the one side, LO aiid the Corporation of Preston on the other-was still'on- ...