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... middle age, that he became M.P. for Lis native town. Mr. Baines, senior, was a Whig, for the Whigs abolished the Test and Corporation Acts, the Whigs made Leeds a borough, the Whigs made rtlr. Baines an M.P., and the present M.P. for Leeds still retains that ...
... He professes to be a moderate Conservative. The other candidates were Mr. Skipton, moderate Whig, and Mr. Greer ultra Liberal, a Radical from the start. The Whig nowhere on the poll, and thenceforward it was a gallant race between Messrs. M'Cormick and ...
... man Friday—as the Whigs had irreverently nicknamed Sir Charles. The relationship of the latter to the Whigs was shortly to become more agreeable. Lord Howick went up to the House of Lords, in the room of his father, deceased. The Whigs were out of office ...
... Bouverie William Brand, M.P. for Lewes, is an announcement of no little importance in a party sense at this junoture of politics. Whig whippers-in must, of course, get tired of their work like other persons, and covet a comfort- able retirement at a convenient ...
... show the licence of the press, Quotes a passage from the Knoxviile Whiff re- specting Attorney-General Mack. The editor of the Whig says:— We took a look at him, and we don't hesi- tate to say that in his countenance we could see mingled the virtues of the ...
... TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE WHIGS AND THEIR LAw-OFFMERS.—After much diplomatic management and official squabbling, the Whigs have contrived to get law-officers. Their nex i and more unpleasant task may be to get both into the Houso of Commons. At first the ...
... public career in the Lower House, voted on all occasions with the Whig party; and, although an unfrequent speaker in the House of Peers, invariably supported the views and measures of the Whig Governments. On the death of his father, in October, 1839, he ...
... been reported as i a weak state, died on Fridav evening at Lausanne, ia Switzerland, m L-is 66th yew. His lordship i as a Whig in politics, aad was for some time Lord Chamberlain. He was also Lord-Lieuienant of Argyllshire. In 1843 he entertained the ...
... the Times, and in the time of Charles James Fox and the Whigs, an organ of great power and in- fluence. Perhaps it attained its highest literary eminence when Holland-park House was a great Whig and literary focus, and Tom Moore burst on the world of ...
... We'jl forget the talk incessant- Weary words. Only hoping, when the flying days of our recess are dying, We may shoot our Whig friends flying Like the birds. The Press. ...
... under your feet! How delightful the joy of which nobody knows! And the thoughts how sublime, which lie Under the Rose. The Whigs they may fancy they govern the State, To the world they may seem to prevail in debate; But now is the season the truth to disclose- ...
... student at Lincoln's-inn. His means were narrow, but a countryman, Serjeant Spankie, had the direction of the then ov-an of the Whigs—the Morning Chronicle-and by this influence he was enabled to earn a sufficient income to maintain him as a gallery reporter ...