... dignity to which he has been advanced, has been held many distinguished men. His immediate predecessor, Dr. Anson, was a model Whig dean, a courteous and pleasant gentleman good famity, but not remarkable for attainments or services. The three who filled ...

... Mr. E. S. Gordon, for Thetford, where an attempt was being made by means of the Grafton and Baring interest to thrust in the Whig Lord Frederick Fitzroy. to this time the present Government have been without the assistance of either of their Scotch law-officers ...

... Gladstone will resume his place as second in command of the Liberal party. The correspondent, however, intimates that the Whig 3 and the Radicals are divided on many points. Mr. Roger Pickup, a farmer, of Chapel Farm, near Bolton, recently attained his ...

... the task has successfully and, we trust it may prove, satisfactorily dealt with the Reform question. Lord Russell and the Whigs talked Mr. Disraeli and the Conservatives achieved, and the Reform Bill of 1867 is the monument of their efforts. The amendments ...

... in the House of Commons when it pleased Lord Palmerston in 1856 to recommend him to the Queen for a peerage. He was a good Whig, and, no doubt, had fairly earned his promotion, but as a public man he was little known out of his own county either as a ...

... coincidence that two such ridiculous additions to the Reform Bill have been proposed in the House of Lords the sons of two great Whig lawyers. Lord Stratheden, who is the son and successor of the late Lord Chancellor Campbell, once contested Taunton in the ...

... the present sovereign up to the commencement of last year, the Conservatives had created only fifteen peerages, while the Whigs had conferred the enormous number sixty-five, or more than four times as many. The Scotch Reform Bill is in almost as much ...

... for him ! If he is not to lead the Liberals, who is to lead them Is seriously meant that he is to be placed under worn-out Whig peer, who is to coach him, and show him the secrets of Whi art ? Let us hope that least this stage of political decrepitude ...

... proposer said was the choice of a new party just formed called the Constitutionalist party, comprising moderate men of the old Whig and Conservative parties), and Mr. H. S. P. Winterbotham, a Liberal. The show of hands was in favour of the latter candidate ...

... words from Lord in support of the clause, Lord Carnarvon gave it is most hearty approbation. The plan proposed was neither Whig nor a Tory scheme, for it seemed to meet with general approval from both sides of the House. He trusted their Lordships would ...

... performed important services for England. is very necessary that they should be chosen from both sides—the same number of Whigs of Tories; and above all do I wish that they should be well-educated men and of high character, who, as I have already said ...