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THE DIVISION ON THE PAPER DUTY

... ex-Speaker, Lord Eversjey, voted with the Government, contrary to anticipation, as did also Earl Fitzwilliam. Among recent Whig creations, two, Aveland and Wensleydale, assisted to swell the Opposition, while Lords Llanover and Lyveden remained faithful ...

The Reform Bill has occupied a considerable share of attention in the Honse of Commons during the past week. On

... while seriously to notice how the Bill is hated by some, despised by others, and distrusted by ail. Conservatives and old Whigs dislike it as effecting too great a change in the Constitution. Democrats despise it as effecting a change scarcely worth ...

PROM PUNCH

... o'er, tbe weary conflict cease. pledge at last will be redeemed, and I shall at peace. And when Reform is set at rest, the Whigs will baply say : Oh! tbe tie, tie broken between and Dear Lord Grey ...

LITERATURE

... Second down to a time which is within the memory of men now living. We consider the writer gives very fair estimate of the Whig aristocrat. He deems the claims of the admirers for Macanlay the first place as orator, poet, essayist, and historian to be ...

LITERATURE

... achievements. The High Church party be gratified at the rough handling which the Government of Lord Palraerston has merited Whig Bishop-making—it being set forth that every vacancy which occurs on the Episcopal bench, or in Cathedral church, is obviously ...

The Taunton Courier And Western Advertiser

... Duties, Lord Derby gave I notice of determination to oppose it in subsequent | stages ; and other noblemen, including several Whig Peers, signified their intention to do the same. We confess that we never saw any sufficient reason why the Paper Duty should ...