... apatronage at the disposal of the present governeut. It has been Sir John Harding's fate to advise the govement Fr(whether Whig or Tory) on the international questions that e arose during the Russian and Italian wars, on the affair of t the Charles et ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... the public mind. Any discredit for inaction in the Reform cause must, says the writer, be equally shared by Mr Fox and the Whigs. The Westrminster article on Election Expenses, more than half- disposed to suggest that voting be compulsory on all electors ...

... 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 ...

... wasasomewhat loose politician-scarcely a whig, though he wrote g for the Edcnburf1h Review ; certainly not a tory. c Afterwards, it is needless to say that lie was a tory c of the tories ; and in those days whig and tory I meant more than the distinction ...

... Ridgway, Piccadilly. , * - Such is the title of a well-written pamphlet tracing the political career of the two first Liberal or Whig Statesmen of the day from the year 1831 to the present moment. If only as a resusl.j of the great national and foreign questions ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... his mother-was the banished Earl of Derby, a personage we do not recollect having read of in the great struggle of the Whigs and Tories of those days-the respective friends of the Duchess of Marlborough and Mrs. Mtasbawn. The confusion of tongues ...

... clubs, and each year saw the establishment of many more, great and little. Politicians followed the fashion of authors, and Whigs and Tories had their separate centres of action. The Kit-Cat Club, begun by a pastry-cook, and specially devoted to the eating ...

... 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 ...