... were fit fbr. Mr Tait's politics were professedly those of an independent Radical, swayed by a strong friendly feeling to the Whig party. BIRTHS.-On the sth inst., at 7 Oxford square, the wife of iI.M. Jack- son, Esq., of a ?? the 30tb ult., the Countess ...

... the passing of the Reform Bill, and, as a tory, at that period voted against that measure, and uniformly voted against the whig party, It was not until the late Sir Robert Peel was called upon to take the helm of the government, ip 1841, that the Earl ...

... subsequently remarried to Lord Frederick Gordon Hallyburton. During the few years Mr Wemyss was in Parliament he supported the Whig party, was favourable to a measuro of Parliamentary reform similar on principle to Lord Russell's propositions. On national ...

... varied accomplishments, and took much pleasure in the cultivation of his literary tastes. As a politician he belonged to the Whig party, but never took any very active part in politics. He was a man of exceed. ingly amiable manners, and was held io high ...

... to the passing of the Reform Bill, and as a Tory at that period voted against that measure, and uniformly also against the Whig party ; but when the late Sir R. Peel was called upon to take the helm of the Govern- ment in 1841, Earl Jermyn joined the ...

... succession which everybody else supposed to have been settled past dispute. In 1841 he went out of office, together with the whole whig administration. One of the imputations I on the outgoing ministry of Lord Melbourne was its illtreatment of Lord Plunket at ...