... rejection in North Lancashire would have assuredly been fatal to his political career, had he not been the eldest son of a great Whig Duke ; but there will probably be no great difficulty in finding him seat for some more Cavendish-loving constituency, or he ...

... this policy, for only in this way was the troublesome question of Reform settled after nearly twenty years' controversy and Whig intrigue. Lord Russell failed, Lord Aberdeen failed, Lord Derby failed, Lord Palmerston failed, and again Lord Russell aided ...

... was found that the number of men required had not been raised several thousands ; and this brings me to the last year of the Whig Administration and the expenditure of 1865-6, of which Lord Hartington appears so proud. The number of men voted was 142,471 ...

... are full and ample, but I desire at the time of polling you will realize all your expectations and return to Parliament two Whigs in the persons of your humble servant and my excellent friend Mr. Dalrymple. had known of him, but I did not know him till ...

... eminent statesman nothing more or less than the future leader of the House of Commons. Is Mr. Gladstone to be dished the Whigs? A day or two will probably show. _______ The Liberals were successful in one or two of their raids on Scotch counties, their ...

... supposition that there is only one sort of Conservative and only sort of Liberal, and that they arc identical with the Tory and Whig of our ancestors. Mr. Bright has been addressing the electors of Birmingham on his favourite theme of Tory iniquity and ■ Liberal ...

... As noteworthy as any speech perhaps was the letter read at the meeting from the Duke of Portland, in which that hereditary Whig announced subscription of two thousand pounds in aid of the movement defence of the Irish Church. judge from present appearances ...

... representatives who were not opposed to Maynooth the result of which was that almost every candidate who came forward whether Whig, Tory, or Radical, declared that at heart h* had always been opposed to the Grant, and was ready to pledge himself against ...

... the Irish Church was nothing less than preliminary move against the Established Church of this country. He believed that the Whig party, to which he was bound by hereditary ties, disclaimed intention of disturbing the English Church, but the result must ...

... Gladstone. He had supported the Tory Administration in their Reform Bill, and one reason was that Lord Derby had a power the Whigs had not—that of carrying his measure through tbe House of Lords. The result had been most satisfactory, as we have got 20,000 ...

... exclusive spirit to serve uuder any one who was not a born aristocrat. These critics found it easy to forget that it is the Whigs who have always been jealous and exclusive, and that the Conservatives, or, as they love to call them, the Tories, have ever ...

... article in this number is a review of the loug career of Lord Palmerston. Ihe estimate given of his character is taken from the Whig point of view, and is therefore more eulogistic than Radical politicians quite like. The political paper takes for its subject ...