... 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 ...

... member of. Parliament had more influlence with the legislture thn the whele presbytery of, Lan- cahire. Whether they were Whigs or Tories. Conservtives or Radicals ho hoped s4 the next election they would vote for no man who, would not support a measure ...

... to give Lincoln n chance to anticipate Napoleon'e aotion by granting the recognaition offered by 'tlie French. ' The Bvchsso Whig. gives currency to a rumoour that bearers of despatches from England and France bAl arrived in'Riohmoid. ' The ARVthmond DpatcAh ...

... rebellious States, with or without Davis's authority, to treat for peace on the basis of submission to the Union. The Riohtnond Whig says the Boutb, if subju- gated, would never join the North to fight against England. The Board of Supervisors has sent another ...

... not returnhim with Lord Grosvenor I bad he a right, from'mere personal pride, to stand I in the way of a unionbetween the Whigs and Re. 4 formera,.if- by that combination the Tory could I be turned out and two Liberals returned? I He felt that he had ...

... favour of an extended franchise. At present it might he taken that the Conservatives offered their afancy frau. ohisee; the Whigs offered the £6 franchise; while the ultra. Liberal members of the House of Commonts were willing to go for a full extension ...

... What would yots have thought, during the Frce Trade agitation, if Cobden, and Bright, and Vil- liers, on finding that the Whigs, who were with them to a certain extent, but would not at first go the whole hog with them, had turned to the Forrands, ...