... any sum larger than odd tei thousand, and even he was softened down by fev well-timed compliments from Sir Robert Peel. Thi Whig* st last got fairly into the saddle—as a bod] they were lost to the cause of retrenchment an ...

... Marquis of Lansdowne. The occasion of the election was Lord Henry's acceptance of the ofice of Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Whig Mainistry of Lord Grenville, which obliged him to appeal to his constituency to return him afresh to parliament. He was enabled ...

... statesmen have tr of been able to be to their husbands. She fr di Igwas born and educated in the most brilliant d he period of the Whig aristocracy, and amongst e) its most accomplished families. She was t1 econnected by a double marriage with the w ?? family ...

... Court, Bdckingham- shire, who, for many years, represented Great Marlow in parliament, and was an influential member of the Whig Opposition in the days when, to use Sydney Smith's expressive phrase, it was considered as a piece of impertinence in England ...

... his former clients. Ha had in 1810 entered Parlia. tl moot for the burgh of Camel ford, and at once ranged him- self with the Whig opposition. In 1811 he carried the oni bill which declared participation in the slave trade a t felony, and thereby put an ...

... osay -on Milton, in the Cc Edstnwivg Reidkw, drew upon him the attentioni of , the entire readng publlo. 'The leaders of the Whig hi party, fn acknowledmext ef his literary superiority, 1 appointed Mr.: Macaulay a coiwnlissioner of bank- w ruptcy, and in ...

... '1852, hewsetstdwt h omtd fte aft In nel.Y admninistraition: Thi -he~effectedbyidcn . nu Soac hebr of 'the 'leaders of 'theWhigs to uniteit ?? fl el t owers, thus forming a coalition ministr 'wihlsed in .t rather more than two years, andt islieyt remain ...

... 1$;and captaine,4. ,, EarlBussellsconedfth fizct in the Lodt. Y donkthe whitehatktbiaeaso, and itbeoomees him e wrell. The litte Whig Lord loosch eleiy, fhty adin capital prsraio altoetli e wrhi e it is matr of general observation ana hi regret that Lord Palmeraton ...

... at the close of every Parliamentary session, in the most severe and caustic manner, the progress made in legislation by the Whig Government, be soon forgotten. In 1840 he finally retired from office. His speeches delivered during the last few years upon ...

... 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- ...

... His abilities soon became apparent talr ho i entered 'he House of Commons, and ho was deened a great tl acquisition to tho Whigs-a political party then hourly P gaining strength in tho country. In 1830 he was elected o representative for the county of ...

... 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 ...