... 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 few decided Radicals —indeed, one Quaker, ajprofessor of peace principles, not in the Cabinet ...

... m 182 b, 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 his literary superiority, appointed Mr. Macaulay Commissioner of Bankruptcy, and in he entered Parliament ...

... success, and of that of a still greater man before him, Sir Robert Walpole, who kept the Hanover family 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 ...

... fought a duel with the captain, obtained divorce in the House of Lords, but never married again. The Astleys are a very old Whig family in Norfolk. The title dates back to 1289, and, in ■ 1841, the late peer succeeded in proving his right ■ to summoned ...

... went the Wellington Cabinet, and instead bad Earl Grey and Lord John Bussell and Reform. a little while the leadership of the Whigs was placed in Lord John Russell's hands, and hard time it he bad. The reaction came, and the Whiga were nup pulor ; Lord Stanley ...

... brother, George IV., made him for short time Lord High Admiral. Bat 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, subaltern, he assisted ...

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

... dressed, and with one of those fresh, ruddy, whiskerless faces which make even old man look young. It was dear that was a good Whig, and of an old family, otherwise Lord John would have been a little less friendly. was also dear that waa office, or he would ...

... Spitalflelds, and Clerkenwell, will be up in arms against the unexpected competition. At Coventry, old Edward EUioe, old, sly Whig and Free Trader, will have scruples about Free Trade professions, but will back all his constituents’ demands. But Paxton, ...

... to break up the presses, to throw the type out of the window, and to lock the doors. Uen of all shades of political opinion—Whigs, Tories, and Radicals—have long felt this. Unanimously—or nearly so—the House of Commons pledged themselves to the repeal of ...

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

... cheers the party whom has been all his life opposing. There has been nothing like it since Disraeli’s famous suggestion of the Whigs bathing, and Feel stealing their clothes. The following was the most successful passage : Let them give honour to whom honour ...