... lecturers through the country; a few years afkerwards it raised a quarter of a million. Gradually the more ad- vanced of the Whigs gave their adhesion, and session after session the Parliamentary majority against Ml. Villiers became small by degrees and ...

... lesrs wages, anil inc negotiating for their services. Mr. W. P. Thornhill, one of the members for North D~erbyshaire, and a Whig, hai, announced his intention of retiring from Parliament at thle close of the present session. It it; antlioiitatively announced ...

... Marquis of Lansdowne. The occasion of the election was Lord Henry's acceptance of the ofice of Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Whig Mainistry of Lord Grenville, which obliged him to appeal to his constituency to return him afresh to parliament. He was enabled ...