... contemporaries is the disappearance of another illustrious namefrom the roll of Whig nobility,-a name that carries back the memory to those palmy days of party politics when Whigs and Tories only contended for political ascendancy, when country gentle ...

... together with an ambition for distinction at the English bar which about this time powerfully affected the young Scottish Whigs. It is not difficult to imagine this ungainly Suotch lad, with his broad Fifeshire dialect, making his way through London, ...

... question to the apathy of the people. 'r ovigo adi bar was no such thing, and at'some length i~~ge hpltcleve honesty of the Whigs, 'in whom he sad heSM a anfdue d whatever. Of course Mr. Norriugton we o odfe rm bart his esteemed and' talented friend Mr ...

... not always, been themselves. For the first sixteen years of his career in Parliament, Sir James Graham was essentially a Whig, and some- thing more. Long before the heads of that party had extricated themselves from the fallacious doctrines of Protection ...