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... by all lowl ,c- parties in the province over whioh he presided.In ar mee politics he was all his life a firm and consistent Whig, the ~tbut was not in the habit of speaking in Parliament- for re During his college life the present Earl Grey was one and ...

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... ge;sra F St. tion, Mr. Tottie occupied a very eminent position in the eores borough as a professional man, a leader of the Whig party, Ater and a high-minded, public-spirited, and benevolent citizen, ties, Owing to his very advanced years, which had for ...

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... on Dissenters for the exclusive benefit of the Estab- liehed Church. In politics, he was a sincere and earnestl Whig, looking to the Whig party to carry out faithfully |a the great reforms he shtove in his own sphere to promote. IC But if there was one ...

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... gave hsis services re( to U.reeca, asd vwas employed in that country from 1827 to all 1828. In 1830, on the accession of the Whigs to office under cea Kiiig Willisim IV., Lord Dundonald wan reinstated in lsis ab rank in tho British navy, froma a feeling ...

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... ministry in 1852, the Earl of Aberdeen was celled upon to form an ti adiitain, which he did by inducing a coslitobe2 ' tween the Whigs and the followers of Sir Robert Peel ; ad- it inintitting one Radical (Sir William Moleeworth) to the y loni- Cabinet, and ...

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... Attorrney- t9 General, in l1841 Lord Chancellor of Ireland. lie its ne had only held the office for a few weeks when the ed Whigs retired, and lie was thrown aside. Ile no employed his leisure in -writing the entertainitug ve Lives of the Lord Chancellors ...

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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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... 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 ...