... occasions with the Whig party, and although unfrequent speaker in the House of Peers, invariably supported the views and measures of the Whig governments. Indeed, in every instance he avoided office, but in the dissensions among the Whig party the political ...

... contested Newcastle on- Tyne,.being recently defeated there by Mr. Beaumont, the candidate, who received the combined support whigs and tories. There are now three candidates the field at Leicester, viz., Mr. Heygatq (conservative), Mr. Harris (liberal), ...

... neither his admirers nor his followers. owed his early distinction principally to the fact that he represented one of those great whig families which, by well-contrived and rigidly maintained combination, had, over since the revolution of 1088, virtually governed ...

... increase his majority, hour by hour, until the poll closed. four o'clock the numbers were— Heygate (conservative) 1597 Harris (whig-radical) 1033 Taylor (radical) majority of Heygate over Harris, majority over Tavlor, 620. The number polled for Mr. Heygate ...

... Sing hey. There he did hi£ work for chief after chief, Till the Tory party it came to grief; And the Treasury Bench when the Whigs they won, Who was Foreign Sec. but John Palmerston ? Sing hey. Since then years thirty and one he's seen, But no mark they've ...

... The Nottingham election has doubtless ended in the return of Sir R. Clifton, a thorough-going radical, the Earl of Lincoln, a whig of squeezable calibre, being distanced by some hundreds. It serves such shifty and truckling politicians right, and the sooner ...

... Piers Geale, and widow of Sir Marcus Somerville, Bart. The deceased nobleman had for many years been a zealous supporter of the whig party, and had done good servioe to his political friends during his long career in the House of Commons, more especially duriDg ...

... standing watchword, as opposed to the bureaucracy, centralism, and the coerced rigid uniformity which is the beau-ideal of the Whig faction, and is realised with fall development in the present French regime. The liberty of liberalism is that of America and ...

... learned gentleman has evidently had notice to quit Richmond at the next election —the seat was only conceded by that genuine whig, Lord Zetland, for some special reason, perhaps to get the government out of a temporary difficulty. Mr. Roundell Palmer was ...

... his noble eolleafve, we believe there is no risk too great for hirn'to run if he could possibly regain the supremacy of the whig oligarchy, of which he is the child and the champion. We have again a dearth of important news. The public are tired of hearing ...

... will be. The candidates outbid each other for popular support, until the difference between utter chartist and constitutional whig becomes imperceptible, and gentlemen like Mr. Wingbove Cooke and Mr. Marshman condescend to pander to the lowest and most rabid ...

... wiser, they who read can decide. The chief theme upon which Lord Russell dilated was the meritorious services rendered by the whigs since 1830, not forgetting his own share in their deeds. It appears that nothing but the purest patriotism directed their policy ...