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... nearest approach to the num. bers which filed into the lobbies Thursday morning wasm the division a vote of no confidence in the Whig Ministry in September, 1841. Sir Robert Peel then mustered 360 supporters, and the Ministerialists 269, or a majority of 91 ...
... taste of to-day would think intolerably fulsome. Some coolness sprang up between Mr. Barnes, the editor, and certain of the Whig chiefs. One day while Brougham was sitting in Chancery he received the following letter from Lord Althorp :—Dear Brougham ...
... Mr. William Pett Fessenden, which occurred at Portland, on Thursday morning. Mr. Fessenden was elected to the Senate by the Whig party. General Sherman will act as Secretary for War until a permanent successor to Mr. Rawlins has been appointed. The New ...
... of amendments to the Bill in committee. John Hull adds, Of course, if Lord Derby finds the Bill defeated by tbe action of Whig peer, he will iuterpose no obstacle, but he will not allow the Bill be read a second time. Large meetings, is further stated ...
... treason or trash ; that mixture of both which exactly represents the condition of Ulcter Toryism the present time.— Northern Whig. Wilton Spring Sheep Fair.—This fair was held on Tuesday. It was rather shortly supplied as compared with the last and many ...
... against the keenest logician on the other ; the greatest iawyer of the Tories is matched against the greatest lawyer of the Whigs; the fi t rhetorician of the Treasury branch is met him. who possesses the gift of eloquence rarest perfection among the ranks ...
... and if Johnny does not once more lupset the coach, it will not be for want of the will. It is high time for certain old Whigs who have out-lived their day to retire from the arena of politics; they have done good service to the State in bygone years ...
... number of candidates necessarily lessened, and the danger of ofifendiug unsuccessful postulants considerably diminished. The Whig Dukes of England unprovided with Garters are their Graces of Norfolk, Grafton, St. Albans, and Bedford. The Duke of Norfolk ...
... who 30 years ago got him into that committee. Two friends of his, now dead— one connected with one of our highest and noble Whig families, and the other connected with the commercial interest of this country - conceived the plan diocesan organization in ...
... realized in single-blessedness ; but he regarded her bequest toward the erection of minister's residence as her vote, not to Whig or Tory, but in favour of married bliss. The house would be free of rent—they should also make it free of taxes. (A laugh.) ...