... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... wlsesiho becam~ecretary for, the Colonies. ln both eaphoities hi~ e.nergy and eloquence bad been of signal service to theb Whig zGoverament. But in'-lS:' in conjunetion 'with Sir James Graham, the fluke of fRichmond, and Lord Ripon, ho separated from ...

... Bentinchr, and Mr. Disraeli apply themselves to this two-fold opposi- tion, that, in February, 1852, on the dissolution of the Whig Cabinet of Lord John Russell, the Protec- tionist Conservatives were called into office. In the Midsummer of the preceding ...

... etary for the Colonies. In the disruption of parties after the death of Canning, Mr Stanley drifted into the ranks of the Whigs, became an advocate of Parliamentary Reform, and in Lord Grey's Administration assumed the importantpost of Chief Secre- tary ...

... Gladstone introduced his Reform Bill, which was vehemently opposed by the Tories as needlesslydemnocratic. A fraction of the Whigs, a then called Adullamites, lent their aid to thwart the r Government, and a motion of Lord Dunkellin's, the prac- tical effect ...

... edberci I is polidis of his family, who had for some time bet eot. rolled amorg the Whig houses, sad it Was ?? clear that he would prove a formidab a rival to tha ribiog ?? Whig of that period, Lord Joha Rr ee11 It wias not, howevar, ?? that he made his maijs0 ...