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... made his great forensic speech for the defendant in the celebrated case of Norton v. Lord Melbourne. On the return of the Whig party to office in June, 1846, after the resignation of the late Sir Robert Peel, Lord Campbell joined the Cabinet, and was ...
... system of canvassing, not to attack by anonymous placards or squibs the private or personal character of any of their oppenont, Whig or Tory, but to meet everyone on the high ground of principle and moral worth. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER NEAR CARLISLE. In Monday's ...
... history of the last half century we find the name of Lord Lansdowne actively associated with all the leading measures of the Whig party- such as the abolition of slavery, which he at first advocated in 1807, and again by specific motion in 1814 and in 1821 ...
... spirits of what was then the chloicest literary society of E dinburglh. He cast in his lot with the youllg men who professed Whig politics, aild was conse. quently less familiar with Scott and his immediate associates thall with grave, statistical Francis ...
... THE LATE MR. SHARV!AN CRAWFORD. The following brief momoir of tho lato Mr. Shainian Crawford appears in the Northern Whig, an(! itwill doubt- less be perused with interest by many of our readers:- 'The venerable gentleman whose loss we this day do- plore ...
... any sum larger than odd tei thousand, and even he was softened down by fev well-timed compliments from Sir Robert Peel. Thi Whig* st last got fairly into the saddle—as a bod] they were lost to the cause of retrenchment an ...
... Tuesday oven- cx Ing. The following is an extract; from the honeor- b, able gentleman's speech, as reported by the Not-thems Ii ,Whig,g- The Oraongamen of Belfast were now fairly it called on by their principles and opinions to come cI forward between this ...
... among the freeholders of a county. JTuet as we heard in November of the cats and dogs of a Lancashire borough sporting the Whig or Tory ribbons of their owners, an enthusiastic partisan of 1832 made his pet parrot a nuisance to his neighbours for years ...
... represented Preston in the parliatment; of' 1710, 1715, 1728, and' 1735, His e nephew, Sir H enry, was a candidate on the *Whig or Derbyite interest, at the great election in 1768, along s with Colonel Burgoyne,- nd although they were not re- turned ...
... wlsesiho becam~ecretary for, the Colonies. ln both eaphoities hi~ e.nergy and eloquence bad been of signal service to theb Whig zGoverament. But in'-lS:' in conjunetion 'with Sir James Graham, the fluke of fRichmond, and Lord Ripon, ho separated from ...
... he was unsuccessful. Fortune was, however, more propitious a few months afterwards, when the Radical candidate displaced the Whig scion of the House of Stanley, and none were prouder of their share in the victory than Mr. Hoffman, who, having been one of ...
... Marquis of Lansdowne. The occasion of the election was Lord Henry's acceptance of the ofice of Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Whig Mainistry of Lord Grenville, which obliged him to appeal to his constituency to return him afresh to parliament. He was enabled ...