... measures they had proposed in vain. The Lords baffled the Commons and laughed at them for being baffled. Lord Lyndhurst killed the Whig bills, and then once a year danced his war-dance, and counted the scalps he had taken. Could this happen again ? Could Lord ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... more learned boards of electors in Oxford, pre- ferred the claims of party to those of learning and fitness. Hamilton was a Whig, and the majority of the council was Tory, and so Hamilton was rejected, and Wilson (a man, we need hardly say, of great eminence ...