... system of canvassing, not to attack by anonymous placards or squibs the private or personal character of any of their oppenont, Whig or Tory, but to meet everyone on the high ground of principle and moral worth. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER NEAR CARLISLE. In Monday's ...

... but this ndid not materially increase his income. Sir Robert Clifton successfully contested Nottingham in 1861, against the Whig party, who adopted Lord Lincoln (the present Duke of New- castlei) as their candidlate: .and again, in 1865, but was un- i ...

... Karia Dillon, eldest daughter of Henry Augustus. I J3th V'iscount Iiloc. He had been for many year, jiotitically ?? with the Whig party. Soon after coropleting his education at Christ Church, Oxford, where hie graduated B A. in 1825, he was elected rep ...

... among the freeholders of a county. JTuet as we heard in November of the cats and dogs of a Lancashire borough sporting the Whig or Tory ribbons of their owners, an enthusiastic partisan of 1832 made his pet parrot a nuisance to his neighbours for years ...

... statesmen have tr of been able to be to their husbands. She fr di Igwas born and educated in the most brilliant d he period of the Whig aristocracy, and amongst e) its most accomplished families. She was t1 econnected by a double marriage with the w ?? family ...

... stone's reform project having been defeated; and he passed the well-known measure which enlarged the franchise by nd 'wha. th'e Whigs had ever con.templated. ln 1S6S he retired in favour of Mr. Disraeli, but to the last he led the Conservaetves in the lousu ...

... Knoasley, on the 2i9th of -Marchli, 1iJ79. For elcacsy years the Earls et' Derby had identified theut- ?? anid tldir house, with Whig principles. The- thirteenth Earl had held office as Chaunellor 4e the Dlery of Liaicaster, but his oliisi al tencus' of pl::ne ...

... over the world, was the thir- teenth Earl of the name, lived a retired life, remained to the end of his days constant to the Whigs, and was beat known for his devotion to natural history. His zoological collection of living' animals It Knows. ley was of ...

... capacity was unsuspected, and it was not imagised that in a elicit period lie would soar far shove an- other rs-iing youag Whig, thou in his 31st year-Lord Jolin Russell, The speech on the Irish Church elicited unusual a complinsents froii Mr Hume himself ...

... in 1S51, the resignation of Lord J. Russell brought the Conservatives to the very gates of Downing-street ; and after the Whigs had retained their offices for a year longer, in Feb- ruary, 1852, the Conservative chief, who meanwhile had succeeded his ...

... Parliament. In those days of close boroughs a seat was soon found for him. His family was staunchly 1Vhig, and thus it was as a Whig he was returned for Stockbridgc in 1821. For nearly three years he made no sign in the House of Commons, and when he first ...

... the famous expression, r `-Johnny has upset the coach. And so s Lord John actually had, for ere the close of the v Year the Whigs 'found themselves in occupa- t: tioe of the opposition benches. This prove- ed the turning point in Lord Derby's poli. c tical ...