... being filled up by a merchant and chairman of the Lincolnshire Railways and Great Grimsby Docks. His oppo- nent, Mr. Heneage, a whig squire and nonentity, a mere vote, left Lincoln to contest his old seat, Great Grimsby, and was succeeded in Lincoln by a Liverpool ...

... serious disasters; but, in the heart of a people resolved to be free, disasters stimulate to in- creased exertion. The Richmond Whig thinks that the Jefferson Davis Government is the most lamentable failure in history, and savs that the helm should be surrendered ...

... Hawke, and Boscawen. These, again, are succeeded by the loss of our American colonies, which, be it ever remembered, was a Whig and not a Tory blunder; and this, in turn, by the glorious Revo- lutionary' War, with its Nile and its Trafalgar, its Tiitomi ...

... it having been established in 1770. For a long period it took the lead of the other journals, and represented the Whig party and Whig politics with great ability and fidelity. The paper declined gradually in influence from 184.0 till about twelve years ...

... the Times, and in the time of Charles James Fox and the Whigs, an organ of great power and in- fluence. Perhaps it attained its highest literary eminence when Holland-park House was a great Whig and literary focus, and Tom Moore burst on the world of ...