... occasions with the Whig party; and ?? an unfrequent speaker in the ouse of Peers, in- variably supported the views end measures of the Whig Governments. indeed in every instance he avoided offBee, b~ut In the dissensions among the Whig party the political| ...

... and two years afterwards was returned for Carlisle on Whig principles. His abilities soon became apparent after he entered the House of Commons, and he was deemed a great acquisi- tion to the Whigs, a political party then hourly gaining strength in the ...

... liberal and republican innti- tutions by a visit to America, Captain EIrall laid preceded her and set her the examplo of a Whig of W'higs turned Toey by a visit to Liberty's head-quarters; and Thomas oore himself, though he didi not roturn from America un-~higged ...

... contemporaries is the disappearance of another illustrious namefrom the roll of Whig nobility,-a name that carries back the memory to those palmy days of party politics when Whigs and Tories only contended for political ascendancy, when country gentle ...

... public career In the lower house, voted on all eccasions with the whig party, and, although an un- frequent speaher in the House of Peers, invariably supportd the views and measures of the whig gorern- ments. On the death of his father, in October, 1839, he ...

... passing of the Reform Act, discarded the old party name, and assumed the designation of Conservative. His opposition to the Whigs and to Reform was evinced to to such an extent that at the general election of 1830, immediately after the death of George ...

... scope and play, and it was his delight to furnish them with ample nutriment. In politics he was.., like his father, a staunch Whig, and in religion a steady adherent of the Established Church of Scotland; and there was no measure of local or general benevolvence ...

... was a bencher of that society, and had filled the office of treasurer. From his earliest years Mr. Tancred was a reformer, a Whig and something more ; one of the older members of Brooks's Club, and a member of the Reform Club on the first institution of ...

... political soldier; he had entered with all his heart into the battle for Reform ; and from that time forward he held in the great Whig army a place, if not of command, yet of trust and of influence. Perhaps no man was better acquainted than he with the secret ...

... EARL FoRTESCcuz, K.s., died on Saturday, in his seventy-ninth year. lie bad for many years been a zealous supporter of the Whig party, and had done good service to his political friends during his long career in the House of Commons, more especially during ...

... cannot but see that there were fault' of conduct on both sides, and that the ardent, but often not well-timed efforts of the Whigs to bring about organic reforms, were met by an ill-judged and harsh severity on the part of the then overbearing and narrow-minded ...

... his essay on Milton, 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 bankruptcy, and in 1830 he entered ...