... the second port in the empire, was very important. The most important Whig opponent of the Budget was Sir Francis Baring, who was, in some capacity or other, a member of every Whig Government from 1830 1852. His son, also, lias been Lord of the Admiralty ...

... stentorian voice for the peers. His peerage curious and unusual. His father was Sir John Campbell, and Attorney- General under the Whigs at a time when it was inconvenient to make him chancellor and raise him the peerage, although liis claims to that promotion ...

... strongest in the country. Now have the two greatest legal authorities—two future Chancellors, if they live long enough—the courtier Whig and the real Tory, heartily uniting a sweeping law reform—the result of the combined consultation of law society which includes ...

... the party whom he has been all his life opposing. There has been nothing like it since Disraeli’s famous suggestion of the Whigs bathing, and Peel stealing their clothes. The following was the most successful passage Let them give honour to whom honour ...