... he was raised to the peerage the title of Baron Londesborongh. In politics Lord Londesborough was a stanch supporter of the Whig party. He is succeeded in his title and extensive landed property by his eldest son by the first marriage, the Hon. William ...

... Walter, of Bearwood, for the county, and of the present Lord Derby and Mr. Ramsbottom for the borough. Lord Derby was then “ a Whig, and something more.” It was in the course of this contest, well remembered the old inhabitants, and in connection with which ...

... choose between the friends of the Pope and his enemies, decide between tbe head of the Catholic Church and Government of tbe Whigs.’ The committee lists of tbe rival candidates have been published. That of Lord Campden is headed O'Doopgbue, one tbe members ...

... The/exclusion of any geutleman on such grounds as those on which they objected to Mr. Harris had been repudiated, not only by Whigs and Liberals, but likewise by Tories. Mr. Harris had, on the same narrow grounds, been unjustly excluded from the office of ...

... their favour and affection to his brother, officer in the drd Light Dra goons, at present stationed in Dublin. Mr. Tenison, the Whig candidate, and Lieutenant of the county, who stood on the last occasion, withdraws his claims for the present, in order to ...

... paper duties were well expounded by, of all other persons, Mr. Horsman, the member for Stroud, an old Whig placeman, whose former boast was that he was a Whig and something more.” His views have, however, lately undergone a considerable change, not only with ...

... to the uncalled for innovations in the constitution which the Manchester school of politicians has driven the more moderate Whigs to advocate. Above all he protests against the unjust disfranchisement of ancient constituencies like Harwich. Mr. Rowley was ...

... human credulity—of frailty worked upon by fraud, and the parity of true religion outraged blasphemy and superstition.— Northern Whig. Salaries to East Indian Officials.—The salary of the Governor-General is £25,000 a-year, in addition to which there is an ...

... vicinity, and at some of the stations some lamentable loss of life occurred during the heavy storms of last winter. We (Northern Whig) learn from a private source of information, on which we can place every reliance, that, on Wed- nesday last, Mr. Gladstone ...

... railway contractor. P™ fusses moderate Conservative. The other candidates were Mr. Skipton, moderate whig, and Mr. Greer, Radical from the start The Whig was nowhere on the poll, and it hetwiu Messrs. M’Cormick and Greer, winning by majority the gross numbers ...

... Before the object can be carried out it may be necessary for some persons to discard from their political vocabulary the terms “Whig” and “Toiy, and support true men and good, with proper qualifications for their places. am, Sir, yours truly, Windsor, 9th ...

... assigned for this. The question had been made between the Whigs and the Conservatives stepping-stone to office, and the Conservatives having come to the level of the Whigs, the Whigs were obliged to be Whigs and something more [laughter]. The two parties differed ...