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... success, and of that of a still greater man before him, Sir Robert Walpole, who kept the Hanover family on the throne and the Whigs in office for many years. HIS ORATORY. A thing very remarkable in the House of Commons is the decline of oratory. It is common ...
... 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 ...
... a change of ministers; Lord Derby gave way to Lord Palmerston, with a 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 ...
... brother, George IV., made him for a short time Lord High Admiral. But some of the same sort of influence that made that devoted Whig, experienced turfite, and aristocratic leg, General Anson who had never served with any regiment since, as a sub- altern, he ...
... meetings 'and mixing themselves up I l with the assemblies of the workdling classes, as to ? we find adopted by not a few ofthe Whigs, and s r by most of the extreme liberals. It would be t very difficult 'for gentlemen to 'do this, and n D here lies the danger ...
... Lord John Russell and Reform. In a little while the leadership of the Whigs was placed in Lord John Russell's hands, and a hard time of it he had. The reaction came, and the Whigs were unpopular Lord Stanley had forsaken them, Sir James Graham had done ...
... ministry composed as it is of men of all political shades—the semi-Conservative, the tergiversating aristocratic Premier, the Whigs Lord John Russell and Sir G. C. Lewis, and the ultra-Kadical Milner Gibson, the bosom friend of John Bright t If they have ...
... when the Government made him Secretary to the Board of Control for India; and secured his tblents for the service of the Whigs. '1 his appointment was the best party move in our generation. He went to India for fortune, and came back to Eng- land for ...
... maternal uncle, Mr. William Joseph Denison, who bequeathed to him the bulk of his wealth. I:1ifl lordship was a supporter of the whig party. Thfl deceased was a patron of the turf, and had a princely racing stud. He is succeeded in his title and eX- tensive ...
... money. He was then about forty-four years of age, with a strong taste for applause, patronage, and public life. His wealthl-and Whig connections made him a peer, and he earned his honours, for he patronised everything, subscribed to 'everything, and became ...
... with one of those fresh, ruddy, Whiskerless faooa -wlxich make oven an old man look young. It was clear that he was a good Whig, and of an old family, otherwise Lord John would have been a little less friendly. It was also clear that he was in office ...