... teller when anyone else had to announce the numbers. The year 1866 remarkable for the defection of Earl Grosvenor and other Whigs, and for the opposition to the government bill of Mr. Lowe, Mr. Horsman, &c., was a terrible session for the senior treasury ...

... probable ; but remembering how two years ago he made his party and his country take a leap the dark, in order to dish the Whigs, it quite possible that the latter alternative may be correct. This rendered the more probable by the publication of Captain ...

... inch in advance in behalf the great cause of Civil and Religious Liberty all over the World, the old standing toast of the Whig party _ I can imagine that this list, added to Catholic emancipation and the repeal of the corn laws—measures of which the ...

... party tournament, for Ireland had gained little from those party fights when they had served their purpose ; for the ancient Whigs, so wakeful Opposition, were apt to nod in the relaxing atmosphere of office. He now at last entertained high hopes, not so ...