... and gave in his adhesion to Earl Grey in regard to the amendments of which that noble earl bad given notice. A succession of Whig peers were led by Earl de Grey and Ripon, in support of the resolution ; and a number of short speeches were made in that sense ...

... it Was not to be. The Lords suddenly appeared to take an excessive interest in the Representation of the People Bill, and Whigs, Radicals, and ultra-Tories set themselves to find some flaw which would retard, if not set aside, that which the Commons had ...

... DINNER. A CANTATA. Solo. 0 ye great and little fishes, Handed round in silver dishes Everything that could be wished Like the Whig* you all are dished. Chorus. Oh, oh, oh Joe, Joe, Joe ! No, no, no. Ben, Ben, Ben. It may pass. Fill the glass. Happy colleagues ...

... been excitement in Parliament. In the House of Lords the very principle of the Reform Bill has been attacked, and the old Whigs have been termed the obstructive& Earl Grey tried very hard to carry an amendment which would have completely upset the bill ...

... him. Few men were more universally popular, and he was liked even by those who had no reason to thank him for turning out the Whig Government, and leading the Adullamites. He was taken prisoner in the trenches, during the Crimean war, in rather an amusing ...

... moderate Liberals and progressive Conservatives, which, it is thought, will be the death-blow to old Toryism, and that the old Whigs will be the Tories of the future. Much comment has been made upon Lord Derby's remark, that they have made a step in the ...