... resignation of the Secretaryship at War by Mr. Canning, Lord Palmerston took the vacant place, aud filled it until 1828. When the Whigs came into power, Lord Palwerston became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and represented South Hants, and ultimately ...

... snccess, 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 essay on Milten, 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 Commissioner of Bankruptey, and in 1830 he entered ...

... 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 ...

... Spitalfields, and Clerkenwell, will be up in arms against the unexpected competition. At Coventry, old Edward Ellice, an old, sly Whig and Free Trader, will have no scruples about Free Trade professions, but will back all his constituents’ demands. But Paxton ...

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

... is secured by the check and counter-check of conflicting interests and parties. England owes much to Roundhead and Cavalier, Whig and Tory, Conservative, Liberal, and Radical. Even though they mean it not, from the “seeming evil” of their perpetual strife ...

... in the country. Now we have the two greatest legal authorities—two future Chancellors, if they live long enough—the courtier Whig and the real Tory, heartily uniting in a sweeping law reform—the result of the combined consultation of a law society which ...

... voice for the peers. His peerage is eurious and unusual. His father was Sir John Campbell, and Attorney- General under the Whigs at a time when it was inconvenient to make him chancellor and raise him to the peerage, although his claims to that promotion ...

... how easy it would be to propose specific improvements in the course of the discussion of that measure! If the discontented Whigs and the Tories join, it is clear that we shall have no Reform Bill this session, unless the public insists more strongly on ...

... orders and before § communicating them to the Central Government. ' Sir Charles Trevelyan is powerfully connected with the Whigs ; bat Lord Palmerston is never wanting ] in vigour, and the moment Sir Charles's revolutionary minute rcach>d England he was ...

... men especially obnoxious to the Liberal majority in the Commons, and to the popular party throughout the country—the one, & Whig sinecurist; the other the very champion of aristocratic privilege against the riguts of the people. Al technicalities apart ...