... seems to have been originally designel in its present form chiefly to explain why he left the Tories and took office nnder the Whig Earl Grey: a change which, according to Lord Palmerston’s chivalrous sense of honour, could onl{ be justified by the fact that ...

... he lighted on & cob and a tax-cart. Harnessing this animal as hest he could, he drove off to meet his master; and thus the Whig Lord-Lieutenant of an influential county was received. Being a great walker, he permitted the butler and the tax-cart to convey ...

... statement again the speaker fortified with an oath—tiere would be such an uprising of the people that no Government, whether Whig or Tory, could resist it. The chairman at this meeting read a notice that on the occasion of the Queen’s visit to the City ...

... decided political p.dfionule‘duoh great party, morerespected by men of all parties than was Edward Geoffrey Stanley Earl of Derby. Whig or Tory, Conservative or Liberal, uo watter what a man’s political opiniens might be, every one spoke well of Lord Derby. He ...

... A TRIBUTE TO LORD DERBY. . The Globe says :—** The death of the Earl of Derby is @ national misfortune, Whigs and Tories, Radicals, and Conservatives, will all join in lamentiog the extinction of one of the brightest stars in our political sky. We Englishmen ...

... on the Faxables which, as a young man, he wrote for childran : and | in tise further facts that he began life as an ardent Whig, | that ho passed into a Tory, and that he ended his political career by using al! bis power to pass a Radical measure of ...

... early education at Westminster School, which half a century ago was the chief place of education for the sons and scions of the Whig houses—such as the Russells, the Pagets, and the Slun-on Here he was aschoolfellow of Lord Russell, and of the late Archbishop ...