... political s3oldier; he had entered with all his heart into the battle of Reform; and from that time forward he held in the great Whig army a place, if not of command, yet of trust and influence. Perhaps no man was better acquainted than he with the secret history ...

... sc. cepted office under the Duke of Wellington, and on fhe retixement of that Addministration, and the acces. lion of the Whigs to power, Lord Palmerston became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs-a post which, untl his temporary retirement in 1831 ...

... hostility of the Tory party, (r i then strong under the skilful guidance of Peel-f through the more disguised hostility of the Whigs |f -Richard Cobden worked his way. Lord Mel. -01 bourne, who went through. life hoping that every- b' body would let everything ...

... Ranasay Garden, on the 20th ' inst., by the Rev. Robert Lee, D.D., Frank Dalsell ' Finlay, E sq., proprietor of the Northern Whig, Be'. fast, to Janet, eldest daubhter of Alex. Russel, Esq., of thc &otsvind. MUa TY-M'RAT-At 23 Duke Street, on the 20th inst ...

... y reform, andon the night ?? for the debate Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor, a flam. Ing patriot, gave a grand dinner, to which Whigs only were invited. Poor Lord John was dosmed to ieclaim to empty benches, his friends-the great Eprofessors of liberty and ...

... :East Ret- ' ford..waa disfranchised for. bribery, and the ques, to, |tion aresp what *t'a tolbe done vith the seats., ,The Whigs pi~pposed thabtthej. Bhoild be, trans . E 'ferred to Mancbhester. The Irod'Duke, however, * '1 .detrnine thtitoefi'anqbide ...

... since which time the firm has been Heywood, Brothers & Co. The deceased gentleman, having been long known as a coneistent Whig, and having acquired the high opinion of his ?? by his snp- port of our local institutionh, and especially of the Mechanics' ...

... does not appear to have taken much direct interest in municipal affairs after that. But hbe woe regarded as the leader of the Whigs in the town. and, no doubt, did good service to his political friends. He was a man of fine social parts, and fiad the art ...

... matters anrl salaries, dawned upon the practical mind of the Anglo-Saxon race. A new political group took its seat beside the Whigs and the Tories. Henceforth it never quitted the House of Commons. There it acquired its rank, its influence; there it caused ...

... occupy as the leader of the free-trade party, both in Parliament and in the country. In 1841 a vote of want of confidence in the Whig Government of the day, proposed in the House of Commons by Sir Robert Peel, was carried by a majority of one. A dissolution ...

... 1750.-[See Dr. Strang's Clubs of Glasgow.]' In 1830 Sir John contested the representation of the county of Lanark, on the Whig side, with the Hon. Charles Douglas, but was unsuccessfuil by 15 votes. On that occasion Sir James Graham of Netherby made ...