... eminent advocate in Jiny He did not, however, withdraw from politics, hut continued , f.,f mmv years a prominent leader of the whig party in Illinois. Was several times a candidate for president! il elector, and such in 1844 lie canvassed ' th.; entire state ...

... of . our statesmen so long beyond the average j attained their predecessors. But, all events, we may be glad of it,—and the Whigs especially—since they could hardly form a ' Cabinet of men under seventy, for, where are the vounger statesmen to step into ...

... of his birth being 1792. The descendant of an ancient Scottish family, he was born at Netherby, and, like many of the young Whigs, was educated at Westminster School. From there he went to Queen's College. Cambridge. and very speedily entered upon public ...

... eloquence in debate, made Sir James Graham an acquisition to any ministry ; and when in 1830, he and Lord Stanley seceded from the Whigs on the Irish Church appropriation clause, it was felt to be a heavy blow and sore discouragement. But there were counterbalancing ...

... Professor Dugald Stewart. The reason why he did not go to Oxford or Cambridge appears to have been this -The Rugssell3 have been Whigs for generations; in fact, Whiggism i3 an established tradition in their faun ly-a sort of heir-loom, like Wobulrn Abbey, or ...

... father, and two years afterwards he was returned for Carlisle Whig principles. His abilities soon became apparent after entered the House of Commons, and he was deemed a great acquisition to the Whigs. In 18:10, he was elected representative of the county, ...

... fallen into other hands, being no polltkian himself, and quite unacquainted with the particular views of the members. Which wail Whig or which Tory he really could not tell, but he believed they were no obstructionists, and that both vigorously put their shouldeis ...

... Duke, and his expressed determination to oppose any scheme, having this for its object, paved tho way for the accession of a Whig Ministry. Sir James was made Cabinet Minister, and placed at the head of the Admiralty; and his conduct in this department ...

... raised to the highest post, if not with the favour of the public, yet without any display surprise. A politician who was the Whig Cabinet of Lord Grey and in the Conservative Cabinet of Sir R. Peel, and who, again, formed the connecting link between the ...

... their political Paradise of easy ereation Within twelve yean, 400,0001 has been apt art this experiment. Every Government, Whig* and Tory, has actively sustained it. Its staff embraces nearly 100 Professors and other chief offioovnomn, of them amongst ...

... i• 4111..41y/ for %hid. I have paid charge of rout.) from Auitralia. \lava V noises !—A eor. reenondent of the ' Northern Whig' nays It i• well that, haiing •uhioet, you know the norm &hood cheap •hiit-making in Be'- fe•t. I sequainted it h • mot her ...

... tin, and the conversation, , many • the v.un, , pangra, hs of sorrow, intimation of the .h-ath ...