... in party discussions, and by the general election. The Reform Bill of the Conservatives satisfied bat few, and that of the Whigs was not brought forward. Qaestiona of pressing importance were paaaed over. For all practical purposes Parliament might as ...

... year may be said to be inoperative. But enough of this. The new year comes us with thousand magnificent promises. All parties—Whigs or Tories have agreed to settlement of the question of Parliamentary Reform; we are to have legal reforms, yet more imperatively ...

... grounds where Addison, Charles James Fox, Burke, Sheridan, Horner and Mackintosh, Rogers and Sydney Smith, Tom Moore, and every Whig celebrity between the times of Fox and Lord Melbourne, walked and talked, may cut up into squares and terraces. If true, what ...

... hi* essay on Milteu, in the Edinburgh Renew, drew upon him the attention of the entire reading public. The leaders of the Whig acknowledgment his literary superiority, appointed Mr. Macaulay Commissioner Bankruptcy, and in 1830 he entered Parliament ...

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

... success, and of that of a still greater nun before him, Sir Robert Walpole, who kept the Hanover family the throne and the Whigs in office for many years. details of his policy, which, other hands, would hare been dull and uninteresting, served with him ...

... by a change of ministers; Lord Derby gave way to Lord Palmerston, with broad-bottomed following, for it included, with old Whigs, the best remains of Peel and few decided Radicals—indeed, one Quaker, a professor peace principks, not in the Cabinet, Mr ...

... fought duel with the captain, obtained a divorce in the House of Lords, but never married again. The Astleys arc a very old Whig family in Norfolk. The title dates back to 1289, and, in 1811, the late peer succeeded in proving his right to summoned to ...

... and Lord John Russell and Reform. In a little while the leadership of the Whigs was placed in Lord Juba Russell’s hands, and hard time of it he had. The reaction came, aud the Whigs were nnp polar ; Lord •Stanley bad forsaken them, Sir James Graham had done ...

... he iorm •• The Queen ’• that the matter should be at once settled, being gi«en, the naihnal >n ...

... build, very plainly dressed, and with one of those fresh, ruddy, faces which make even old man look lt was clear that was good Whig, and of an old family, otherwise Lord John would have been little less iricudly. It was also clear that was in office, or he ...

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