... opinion led the way. The fact is, it was the Whig element which preponderated iu the administration even after PITT'S death, and it required some circumstances which should display the differences between Whigs and Tories before they discovered that their ...

... followed the fortunes and ?? the policy of the Whig party. Between 1841 and 1846 Lord Palmeretona was in opposition. In December, IE45, some advances were madd to him, but the hostility of one of the leading Whigs rendered any sal arrangement impossible. ...

... :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 ...

... bywhiohwasto mark him out aethe Foreign li Secretary of the coming Liberal ministry. With a the aCcession of Lord Grey and the Whigs to e power in November, 1830, Lord Palmerston re- e ceivedthesealooftheForeignOffice. He retained I them till the formation ...

... there was one great point on which he sbowedno disposition to syinpathise with the Whigs. He was no friend to Parliamentary reform; and when in 1830 he joined the Whigs, and supported the Reform Bill, he probably did so quite as much from a conviction ...

... 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 ...

... commenced life as a Tory, and his first contest was carried on on party grounds with the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Whig go- vernment of Lord Grenville. A Tory he remained during the first quarter of a century of his political life, but his Toryism ...

... those of his rivals, ye At all events, he made way for them to carry the. tb measure by resigning the government. But the Whigs, pi were in no condition to accept' the hoxiour thus, el offered to them. t The diplomaldic rupture with Spain produced much ...

... foreign politics were, at this time, his nearest points of contact with the Whigs. And to the Whigs he now went over, accepting in 1830 the seals of the Foreign Office in the Whig Ministry formed under Lord Grey, which carried the Reform Bill, and, with ...

... down to the present he has been a member, in some capacity or other, of every administration which has been formed-whether Whig or Tory, Conservative or Liberal; so that his knowledge of men and things must have been extraordinary-his politi- cal experience ...

... Zst p~ulari exluelve tempis of fame. Almoest all his political contermporaries who took a leading Position, whether in the Whig or in the Tory ranke, were Cambridge men. If Byron, Coleridge, an4d Wordsworth are to be claessd among out greatest poets, ...

... But there is no miltaldog the popular feeling on the unexpected event of; Wednesday last. For once, Tories and Radicals, Whigs and Conservatives, have with one consent forgotten the principles which separate tkem at ordinary seasonso r lle prpose of ...