... action. Although, from to 1840, he held office Home Secretary, under Sir Robert Peel, ended life ea he had began ita decided Whig; and his name is identified with the Reform Bill of 1832, the Repeal of the Corn Laws, and other prominent liberal measnres ...

... and two years afterwards he was returned for Carlisle on Whig principles. His abilities soon became apparent after be entered the House of Commons, and he was deemed a great acouiaition to the Whigs, a political party then hourly gaining strength in the ...

... based. If the American collapse is exerting any real influence pernicious the Liberals in this country, it is because the Whigs have Droved that they did not dare to take their stand any principle of their own, but simply expended the.r strength in moderating ...