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... removed to the upper branch of the Legislature. lie voted for the Reform 3Bill, and all the nteasuiees emlanating from! the Whig Administrations, from Rarl OIrey Dp to Lord John Russell becoming First Lord of the Treasury. Several years back Lord Yarborough ...

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... Stephen's for a few months. Both of them served in a subaltern office under Peel, and lived to bold high office under his Whig antagonists. Both worked hard at the drudgery of official life, Lord Delhonsie in the Board of Trade during the railway mania ...

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... when, in 1848, Dr Sumner was made Archbishop a of Canterbury, The Tories had raised him r Ito the see of Chester ; it was the Whigs d who conferred upon him the higher dignity. There were jost then a few faint symptoms of that recoil from bhe extreme views ...

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... lobby as if they were a regiment, and he the colonel. It would be absurd to say that a Whig Ministry is now in power carrying Whig measures by the strength of the Whig party. It would be foolish to pretend that ther is a Conservative Opposition determined ...

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... established the fame of its author as aarimenitary orCator. Pitt died ithin the year; with hisdeah hs prtywasbroen p, ndthe Whigs, under Fox.andGrevile, aineint ofice Inthis ministry, w~iohl University of Cambridge, in the psc of~ Pitt. The dara- tion of ...

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... afterwards have seemed. Up to this time he had been in poli- tics, to use the now classical phrase of Mr. DENmAN, a Whig, and something more than a Whig. But up to this time MR. COrEY had known little of politics except as a disinterested, and perhaps rather ...

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... Scot smacn ann ounces the4 death of Mr. Wermyss, M.P., at his residence in London, on Monday q night. The Hon. Gentleman was a Whig, and represented 2 Fifeshire. i2 The Select Committee of the House of Commons, appintd t inuir ino crtan pwers of railway~ ...

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... admire the spirit in which LOrnD Mo;'rETII conducted the fight. At length the V long days of polling came to an end, and the Whig candidates were at the head of the poll. Firom that hour Loent MORtrETH'S identification with Yorkshire and Nvith the West ...

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... remedy. Thqe Whigs were at the time singularly destitute of financial l ability, and the Tories, though blessed with a leaner of more than ordinary sagacity in such matters, were as a body even more prejudiced and ignorant than their Whig rivals. It may ...

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... at large on the Democratic ticket. He canvassed a large portion of the State, meeting upon the stump several of the leading Whig orators. In 1S41 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1843 he was elected to Congress, where. by successive elections, ho ...

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... opinion led the way. The fact is, it was the Whig element which preponderated iu the administration even after PITT'S death, and it required some circumstances which should display the differences between Whigs and Tories before they discovered that their ...

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... there was one great point on which he sbowedno disposition to syinpathise with the Whigs. He was no friend to Parliamentary reform; and when in 1830 he joined the Whigs, and supported the Reform Bill, he probably did so quite as much from a conviction ...