... and responsibility. devoted follower Henry Clay, when he began mingle in politics he heartily espoused the platform of the Whig party, and the claims of Clay the presidential chair. During the administration of Polk, therefore, in whose term the Mexican ...

... Argyll, Earl Clarendon, and Lord Kimberley. Mr. Gladstone's Government contains three elements it» viz., the Peelites, the Whigs, and the advanced Liberals. Most of the Liberal Governments since the repeal of the corn-laws in 1846 have contained strong ...

... to see how Mr. Disraeli regarded the conduct of Sir John Campbell. Is it part of the code of etiquette this saturnalia of Whig manners, be asks indignantly, that tbe honour of man is to be vindicated by compliment to woman Further on he declares that ...

... Store Department the suppression Bis office, whilst all the officers under him have been handed over to the tender mercy the Whigs let it always be a scandal upon the memory of Sir John that worshipped the 'great trod the Arrow Tw-y ...

... with Mr. Lowe, who resisted it, forget that Lord Derby, meditating household suffrage as a possible means of dishing the Whigs, did not scruple to invite Mr. Lowe's assistance. A Telegram received at the India-office states that Lord Mayo arrived in ...

... retrenchment carried into every department of the State; in a word, practical effect will be given to the old watchwords of the Whig party, Peace, Reform, Retrenchment, and Economy. The Records of Mortality attest that death has e ad havoc durin the y ear ...