... polled, we believe, more unsplit votes than any candidate before or since, but was defeated through the family influence of his Whig relatives. Mr. J. Abel Smith, well-known and distinguished Conservative politician, has suplied the vacancy and maintained ...

... difference between the conservative-liberal and the liberal-conservative, between the liberal-conservative and the whig, between the whig and the advanced liberal, and between the advanced liberal and the radical (laughter). But there is a very wide difference ...

... dark clothes. Next him was the Earl Clarendon, wearing his usual limp and indefinite expression. Beyond him that wiggiest of Whigs, the Duke Somerset, and beyond him, again, that most remarkable nobleman the Duke of Argyll, who always moves about with his ...

... avail, and at a quarter past one 011 Thursday afternoon he breathed his last. In politics, Lord Lansdowne belonged to the old Whig School, as represented by his father, and Lord Grey and Lord Palmerston. As such he was averse to some of the details of the ...

... SterlTn May, 1832, wrote the same day to the Duke of WelWton to congratulate him on the salvation of the Constitution rom the Whigs, andl to Lord Grey to condole with him on its pending destruction the Tories, and enclosed the letters in the wrong envelopes; ...

... lower classes. In the same way there was very little distinction between a Liberal Conservative and Conservative Liberal, a Whig and a Liberal, Liberal and advanced Liberal, and an advanced Liberal and a Radical, although there was clearly a defined line ...

... of Lord Cremorne to an earldom by the title of the Earl of Dartry, have received the same formal recognition. Mr. Brand, the Whig whipper-in, was a curious jumble of events, sworn (as we are also informed by the Gazette) of her Majesty's Most Honourable ...