... King was determined not to be caught in the trap which was set for him; that be had taken alarm at the progress made by the Whigs, and said he should settle it all by turning out Canning. Bates comes from London, and brings with him our passports, c. He ...

... him. Such an incident did how- ever occur, once '10 my knowledge, perhaps oftener. Sir Henry Vavasoun an old major-general, a Whig strongly verging towards Radicalism, himself of very ordinary appearauce, was invited, on his arrival at Paris, to a soiree ...

... invested in the Indian Five per Cents., in addition to a previous sum of 16,000 invested in that stock. GLOrcssTERi ELECTIOw.-The Whigs have carried both Members for Gloucester Their presence in the House will be a most welcome addition to the otherwise diminishing ...

... have to record the death, at Great Malvern, of the Right Hon. Samuel March Phillipps, well known to politicians as a veteran Whig, who for twenty years held the office of Under Secretary of State for the Home Department. Mr. Phillipps was the second son ...

... life. * The family of Mrs Trench was, 'we believe, Tory in politics, but that she had herself what the Americans would call Whig proclivities is evident from many pas- sages of her Remscains. Take the following portrait of a Tory Peer as a specimen. ...

... wered by tes laudanum. 'Mr. Fox was nervous beforespeaking; Iso, I have heardi was Lord Plunkett. A distinguished member of the Whig party, now no more, and who was himself one of the- most sensitive of men -and one bf the must attractive of orators, told ...

... Richmond. He was neither liberal in his views nor consistent in his conduct. He com- rnenced life as a Tory, ratted to the Whigs at the time of the passing of the first Reform Bill, then veered round to early opinions, became the most virulent opponent ...

... F.R.S. W i s q .. Leihbton, J., Esq. F.S.A. Waison, lr Forboa Moffatt, Major Weld, e. P., Es Oldfield, Edomnnd, Esq. M.A, . Whig, io aq Quin. C. IV., Esq. P.C.S.Wigt FAFo Her Mtaiu ato CommiesionesE Superinteodents of Building Works CaptaNIn Philpottg ...

... the Cinque Ports, leader of the Nrouse of Com- mons, President of the Ramsey Mechanics' Institute, part author of the New Whig Guide, Prime Minister of England; and, to the closest observer, his age appeared to range between thirty. five and thirty-five ...

... prejudices of George the Third prevailed: he would l listen to no proposal for bringing him into personal contact I with the great Whig statesman, of whom he complained i not only as a Sovereign but as a father. The sequel of i this rejected plan is thus told: ...

... principles, founded on common humanity and juntioe, the triunph of which we owe to the courage and the practical good sense of the Whig party; before the example of a Court, virtuous, humane, and beneficent; the altitude of the British upper classes has undergone ...

... speaks, are Lord Melbourne, Lord Aberdeen, and the Duke of Welling- ton. Lord Melbourne he found the least radical of the Whigs, impartial from clear sense and indifference, a 'judicious epicurean, an agreeable egotist, gay without warmth, and mingling ...