... flatter themselves that at last, after so many years defeat, they were about rescue their borough from the domination of the Whigs. At half-past three o'clock the Conservatives grew hopeful. and towards four, when therewasnodoubt of the realisation of their ...

... old gentleman, inhis Hue coat with gilt buttons, buff waistcoat, the ooetume the Fox Club, which, as the last of the old Whigs, invariably wore. It is only late years that he has ceased to ride on horsehack like his young Mend Lord Palmerston hut his ...

... established the fame of its author parliamentary orator. Pitt died within the year ; with W» drath his party broken up, and the Whigs, under ho* RnmD m n tarvDinner and Presentation, and Grenville, came into office. In this ministry, pattwMjd which is familiarly ...

... surprise, ofgiw. “Thatold tbere-i. my husbsn^^.y^ TOPICS OP THE DAY- Tub Marquis La»3uowm^ So til* great patriarch erf the Whig* gone. Titan ot debate; orator , With powers to sway tbs . Aa great master ...

... Sir Robert much esteemed m one of the most useful members the House of Commons. He almost cossUntly working committees. was a Whig, and the majority his constituents were Conservatives; but they would hear of no other candidate while lived, so greet was ...

... in the comes the last nseion by Msjor O’RsiUy. The Whites.” ssthey arafsmUiarly stvled in Ireland, have always been stannch Whigs, the advocates of civil and religious llberty-in thedefinco which ptlnciples they have expended Inge eums of money to opening ...