... steady patron. Mr. Francis became a pupil of Chantrey, and was subsequently introduced by Mr. Coke to the leading men of the Whig party, of whom he was during the whole of his career the special sculptor. He was a great favourite with William IV., and was ...

... with any one man’s name, and Lord John Bussell has always maintained that it bad the effect of destroying the symmetry of the Whig measure. In 1836 the marquis obtained select committee in the House of Commons for the consideration of the grievances and ...

... bis public career in the Lower House, voted all occasions with the Whig party, and although an unfrequent speaker in the House of Peers, invariably supported the views and measures the Whig Governments. On the death his fotber, in October, 1839, he sncceeded ...

... disposed to sanctiou a and £lO franchise, a measure brought forward by Lord John Russell, sanctioned a large section of the Whig party, and supported, I believe, by your late representative, and every shade of politics down to John Bright. I should be ...

... and the Tories, the deceased, on more than one occasion, asserted his right to record bis vote against his party. Rather than Whig pure and simple, he was regarded as an independent and advanced Liberal—an advocate of progress, but not of hasty, violent ...

... any disagreeable jo abont his votes [hear, hear]. _ presented his friend on hi ency bad pronounced that thi derate upon the Whig side [ch ...

... Barlow seconded the nomination. In politics-Mr. Griffiths is represented as a Liberal, Mr. Hill as a Tory, and Mr. Weguelin as a Whig. The several candi dates having addressed the electors amid much confusion and uproar, show of hands was taken, and declared ...

... by his friend on his right [cheers]. The constituency bad pronounced that the representation should preponderate upon the Whig side [cheers]. That being so they could not possibly be more respectably or more ably represented than by bis honourable friends ...

... object of this Bill was good, but the means taken for raining it were bad. It was but an instance of the system adopted by the Whigs of taking out of tbe bands of tbe people of England the power of self government, which formed the foundation of the Constitution ...

... became law; and it is, I think, universally felt that the arrangement then made can no longer defended or maintained. Three Whig Governments, one Coalition Government, and one Tory Government have, within the last ten years, admitted this. The Queen has ...

... consisted of a cheque for £352, the amount of subscriptions to the fund. Atrocious Murders.—The following is from the Northern Whig of Monday :—“ It becomes my painful duty to inform you of the perpetration of one of the most appalling murders that ever filled ...

... 1783, and was therefore in his seventy-ninth year. The deceased nobleman had for many years been a zealous supporter of the Whig party, and had done service to his political friends during his long career in the House of Commons, more especially during ...