... deliver the speech which he meant to have delivered on a previous evening. He began by a re- ference to the conduct of the Whigs in the matter of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill-omitting to mention, how- ever, that the only objection which he made to the ...

... Lord Stanley (the late Earl of Derby), and Sir E. P. Hoghton, Bart., were the members for Preston. They both represented the Whig or Stanley interest in the borough, and had been returned in 1796, after a keen con- test with Mr. John Horrocks, manufacturer ...

... it has been accepted by him. The country has reason to rejoice that the Premier has evidenced a determination to go beyond Whig circles for gentlemen whose co-opera- tion and support he deems desirable to secure for his ministry. It is also a matter of ...

... work to the Whigs, and of resigning his Premiership, but that the Whigs were unable to form a Government, through the refusal of Lord Grey to sit in the same Cabinet with Lord Palmerston. The first Earl Grey was the only one of the Whigs who stubbornly ...

... kinda of antagonists. ! The Conservatives detest his political views; the Radicals cannot abide his Church views; and the Whigs will not comfortably follow a man whose family was unacquainted both with Lord Somers and Mr. Fox. The struggles of so powerful ...

... Earl of Pt Derby was, along with Sir Henry P. Hoghton, a can- dilate on the Whig or Derbyite interest for Preston. th After a strong contest with Mr. John Horroclhs, the two Whigs were returned ; but in 1802, the noble lord cund Mr. John Horrocks wore elected ...

... gdwird Mini, of the Liberation Society, to stand in I cotru~ction with Mr. Bazley, should ir. Gibson decline to do 0. The Whigs propose to invite Sir Charles Wood,| but as the right hon. gertlenan greatly offended the mill. owners by bis refusal to aid ...

... Tn the most powerful days of the old coalition, when opposition Was all but hopeless, and when to oppose the combination of Whig and Tory was to brave persecution asnd oppression, there wvas regularly a candidate in the field. Those who fought for the ...

... a long and close embrace, each fancying that the other was a tool, to be used for any purpose of political ambition ; the Whigs, not having the courage to begin to make improvements which they see to be necessary and right, have accomplished little, of ...

... to say impetuosity, of which few who see him now would think him capable. And when the tide of popularity turned, and-the Whigs, long excluded from office, came into power, Earl Grey and Lord Melbourne, in their respective administrations, were indebted ...

... with which his lordship's name wil be most generally associated in time to come, was first bestiowed upon him by the great Whig states- man, whose principles were'pea ce, retrenchment,: and reform, and under. whose LeadeaaeK p. Lord John Russell brought ...

... Roman States to be the plague-spot of Italy. You are dissatisfied with the Whigs, and want a change; you will probably get one, and when you have the Tory Stork instead of the Whig Log as your king, like the frogs in the fable, you will find your change ...