... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... This appoinament was, doubtless, mainly owing to the influence of his brother, Charles Buller, who was then a member of the Whig Government. There was something beautiful in the affection of the two brothers. They were both pupils in youth of Thomas Carlyle ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... this was done in the interests of party rather than of the State—that the paltry motive which he was actuated was to dish the Whigs, and thus to procure for his partisans longer lease of power—sufficiently indicates the character of the man. Want of judgment ...

... 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 ...

... Board of Trade in August of that year, and held the position until 1841. Sir Robert Peel came into office in 1842, and the Whigs were the left hand the Speaker until 1844. Mr. Labouchere theu was once again made President of the Board of Trade, and carried ...

... your authority; yet I rather fear that your argument makes agaiust yourself : for if the devil was a Whig, you have admitted that, while he was Whig, he was iv heaven ; but you have forgotten that, the moment he got into hell, he set up for a Tory. The ...

... Scotfs Bilious and t - of this town, was suffering lit w - Mr. J a: ., fts complaint, shortness of breath Plenary ,ced almost to whig,,!. ' dl , ffi of breathing, ribed himself as die he was recommiS' Wus. took onIHS' y? ? - am, dear Sir yon?? • has re- pured ...

... seems to have been originally designed in its present form chiefly to explain why he left the Tories and took office under the Whig Earl Grey; a change which, according to Lord Palmerston's chivalrous sense of honour, could only be justified by the fact that ...