... indefinite possibilities of mischief. The news from the Crimea would have been fatal to the Government even if the ancient Whig leader had not attempted to anticipate the fall of his colleagues. Lord Palmerston succeeded to the head of affairs at the ...

... had already known him to possess.’ His talents were so great, his writings so effective, and his influence strong that tho Whigs obtained for him (this, we suppose, must have been in the Coalition Ministry) an appointment as Commissioner of Bankrupts, ...

... member for Edinburgh in 1839, and became Secretary at War in the same year. Mr. Macaulay did not long remain in office, for the Whigs were soon ousted by Sir Robert Feel. In opposition Mr. Macaulay’s voice was not often heard, but one occasion he expressed ...

... Bill—the leedere of the Whig Perty-eteedUy wfued to etep one breed in edeenoe of it. They jnetified by their eondoct thet which friend mine, one who known whet took pleoe time, onoe told mo, tbet the people Brooke*« Clabthe prlndpel Whig elub in London—were ...

... in matters which nesrly concern onr religion and the liberty and free action our Church. It Is not to wished for that either Whig or Tory, Protestant or Presbyterian, should allowed intrude the domain of ecclesiastioal affairs. Bnt, unhappily, if a congress ...

... was stronglyattached to his political friends, and deeply Imbued with those immortal principles which have assigned to the Whig party glorious a share in the annals and government of this country. But he raised those principles to a higher power. He gave ...

... Joseph Denison, who bequeathed to. him the bulk of his Immense wealth. politics Lord Londesboreugb was a stanch supporter of the Whig party. He was created by George Iv , in 1829, a Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Order, was a Fellow of the Royal Society ...

... No confidence” was given in the House of Commons. Before that division took place a meeting was called by the leaders of the Whig party. That meeting was held in an edifice usnally devotee to very different purposes—namely, to dancing purpose —in Willis’s ...

... of the committee, not now in the House, told him that there was young member of the House connected by special ties with the Whig families, and it was his casting vote that destroyed that otherwise immortal Lord of the Treasury. (A laugh.) What was the ...

... that the Irish Liberal who makes up his mind to risk the representation and odium which are sure follow vote adverse to the Whigs and favourable the Tories, must be acting under a strong sense of duty, and not from factious unworthy motive, it is possible ...

... not care one sou what Lord Norman by may say so long he tolerably certain to what the English Government will do. Even the Whig Poets, the descendants of the old rebel lords who held conferenoe in the Painted Chamber, and who discussed so learnedly original ...

... some saying they desired to give peace to the country and strike a blow at the irrepressible conflict, preferring a national Whig to a sectional Republican. Mr. Morris, of Illinois, said, if his vote could elect Smith he would not give it. Other explanations ...