... 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 ...

... and on account of his enlarged views and acknowledged abilities, and the support he had long and consistently given to the Whigs, he was invited by Earl Grey in 1830, when he received the royal commands to form an adminis- tration, to become a member of ...

... thgif way clearly aleag > ufa pith, they took rank, U virtue of iMi wealth, position, ud wmwHom, among* (be of the arlstocratio Whig seatiea. the Tavistoek added title., ud earldom Bedford became a The fint due ill sis spirited uunr to low 11., when the fort ...

... entered life as a strong Tory, but, hsufnu. AIhw w. 6 ?? ?? aid oninrged until he might'have been classed amongst the advanced Whigs. He, however, never mingled in party politics, and butrarelyvoted at'parliamentary or municipal elections. Distinguished for ...

... of parlihament was at the general election of 1807, when George the Third e dissolved parliament to get rid of Fox and the Whigs, and 5 by which he unfortunately sf cured a long lease of power I to Toryism, and its then attendants of political and comn- ...

... take vhat little credit thero Is due to him, tor hc was not a very prointuent miemarr of thc 1Ministry. Ire split from the Whigs bec-ue he ri-fused to tahenany part in reproving that ?? in- reland-the, Irish Protestant Establishment, whic a injnstice still ...

... from the banquet hall to the great' Hall of Judgment, *as one of the shining lilhts and mfain stays of, the now almost effete Whig party. Like many other men of celebiity, it was his failure as a newspa. per man that opened the gates of success to him as ...

... Returning to England, and succeed. ing to the title of Lord Dundonald by his father's death, le was, on the accession of the Whigs to power in the ,first year of the reign of William IV. (1830), reinstated in his command in the British army, and made Rear-Ad- ...

... lecturers through the country; a few years afkerwards it raised a quarter of a million. Gradually the more ad- vanced of the Whigs gave their adhesion, and session after session the Parliamentary majority against Ml. Villiers became small by degrees and ...

... choicest spirits of what was then the choicest literary society of Edinburgh. He cast in his lot with the young men who professed Whig politics, and was Conse- quently less familiar with Scott and his immedile associates than with grave, statistical Francis ...

... lesrs wages, anil inc negotiating for their services. Mr. W. P. Thornhill, one of the members for North D~erbyshaire, and a Whig, hai, announced his intention of retiring from Parliament at thle close of the present session. It it; antlioiitatively announced ...

... fame of its author as a, parliamentary orator. Pitt died Within the year; with his death his party web broken up, and the Whigs, under Fox and Gren- Ville, came into office. in. this ministry, which is familaly known as that of all the talents,, Lord ...