... office under very discouraging cir- n Ces. His political tergiversation of late years has = (from him the majority of the old Whig Party : leals below the gangway regard him as a greater i © Parliamentary Reform than even the late Pre- s admitted, on all ...

... course, be filled up from the ranks of the Conservatives, who are so slightest chance of bei largely in the ascendant that no Whig Peer has the Parliament. ng sent to the Upper House of ...

... new Lordship of the Admiralty, vacant by the promot Peel rx ou of Mr. Childers to the Treasury, vice Frederick ied, He is a Whig of the old type, with Radical proclivities. ORG? | ...

... the fortunes and supported the policy of the Whig party. Between 1841 and 1846 Lord Palmerston was in opposition. In December, 1545, some advances were made to him; but the lemility of one of the leading Whigs rendered any final arrangement impossible. ...

... subsequent career as Foreign speech on the affairs of Portugal. In the November follow- ing he became Foreign Secretary in the Whig Ministry which was then formed, and he has since been a prominent leader of the Liberal Party. He resigned, of course, when ...

... immediately under public control than iu other offices. In he attained his object, and w:is appointed Foreign Secretary, under the Whig Ministry of Lord Grey. Here he continued, and managed our foreign relations until 1852, when he resigned on the vote of censure ...

... objects dearest to bis heart were attained, eyed little ',baba the men with whom he sat on the Tramiel , benches were styled Whigs or Tories, liberal-Conservativa. or COolleft•tliff-Liberals. His very coingsteocy in this respect het been ¬arised as a ...

... resolution, couched in Bras but moderate terms, bad previously been drawn op by Sir James Graben), and generally approved by the Whigs and Peditee, but abandoned to deference to the llaoeheeter man. Lord Palmerston we'd sot be excluded from these deliberations ...

... be equally satisfied with this testimony of the levistben to the meriteof its three only statesmen. What, out of th.• whole Whig party, usually miscalled the Liberal party, the party supposed to represent by large odds the feeling of the whole country ...

... be viewed rather as ioss to the nation than merely to the political party of which he was the nominal chief Conservatives, Whigs, Radicals —alt alike are affected by the mournful intelligence of his decease. Each party, without falsifying its principles ...

... sixty years. His death national bereavement, for though the most important part of his career had been spent in the advocacy of Whig principles, had tha peculiar talent of conciliating men of all parties and of courting hostility from none. Thus it was as ...

... through the eyes of those who are bound to him by the ties of personal intimacy or family conuexion. He was, and is, • pure Whig. Well skilled in what may be called the dead lore of the English Constitution, be utterly failed to grasp that living spirit ...