RECENT POLITICAL HISTORY

... nt can teach. The Refosm Bill of 8g6o, known to be no favourite with the Premier himself, was snubbed by the aristocratic Whigs, and allowed by Lord Palmerston to be so nearly defeated that Lord Russell was compelled to let it fall. No attempt to introduce ...

THE ANNALS OF OUR TIME

... quarters, which culminated in the bedchalaber episale on the resignation of Lord Melbourne's ministry. The ladies-in-wsaiting, of Whig fannilies who had been appointed by him were required to ?? by the incoming Minister, Sir Robert Peel; and her Majesty's successult ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... must needes have some- thing ere I goe. The poor Puritans got no more mercy at the hands of young Mr Manningham than the Whigs received at those of our friend Tom Hearne, upon whose Diary we descanted in our number of the 6th instant. So we are not at ...

LIVES OF LORD LYNDHURST AND LORD BROUGHAM

... Lyndhurst have so much the less reason to complain that Lord Campbell is impartially lavish of criticism and condemnation. Of the Whig party, perhaps Lords Grey and Lansdowne escape as easily as any, but Lords Melbourne and Althorpe have little reason to co ...

Literature

... shown in a way lie considered menacing to publi order, lie wrote to Lord Liverpool what was e virtually a recantation of his Whig profession of X faith in the people. The reply contained an out- line of the Bill to which the Government had resolved to get ...

MISS FARREN, THE ACTRESS

... Fitzgerald, the Earl of Derby, Mrs. Damer, and others. At the same time she became acquainted with the celebrated gambler and Whig statesman, Charles James Fox, whose attentions to her in the green-room were very frequent and a matter of a good deal of buzzing ...

ENGLISH PHOTOGRAPHS

... political complexion of the Pall Mall Gazetle, translated into an equivalent American designation is, it seems, Old Line Whig. London amusements appear in a much more favourable light to Mr. Fiske than to most of our visitors, and, it may be added ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... shall never lack imperfect accounts of historical events. If one man writes like a Tory, another is certain to write like a Whig; a third will step into the arena and deliver the Radical version in flame; while a fourth will roll out the golden legends ...

OUR LITERARY REVIEW

... of his researches and the brilliance of his descriptions-local and personal-will ever be admired, the great Whig historian was too much of a Whig, too much of a partisan, too fond of effect, too favourable to friends, too harsh to enemies, too narrow ...

FASHION AND VARIETIES

... part in the great battle of Roman Catholic Emancipatlon, he was always regarded as one of the moderate p ?? who adhered to Whig principles, and stood opposed to Ultra- montane notlona. His lord-hip married i1 1817 Louisa Emilia, only daughter of Mr. Ellss ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... of the time, chief of chiefs and hero of heroes, Nawab Governor-General Lord Minto, Bahddur. So did the image of a Scotch Whig peer reflect itself in the mind of a Calcutta moulvie in i8io. The book is interesting as a specimen of Mohammedan benevolent ...

DISRAELI'S PARTY

... party- (And they were not slow to lears), There never yet wa'8s principle But inside out 'twould turn; That what's a lie iCC Whig mouthe In Tory mouths is true ; And Household Suifrage always Was a genuine Tory view. Disraeli led his party Two several tirr~aa ...