... after being Speaker of the House of Commons. Bred Dissenter, h© became chief of the Tory party, and entered the cabinet as Whig. He quarrelled with no man, had a kind word for everybody. Ho had no policy, and was, therefore, able to say that any expedient ...

... exciting election, and was defeated only by the retirement of one of the sitting members, Mr. Protheroe, at the coalition of Whigs and Tories at the eleventh hour. From 1845 to this time he had passed from town to town throughout Great Britain, frequently ...

... election : “J. Hargrave’s travelling expenses to Moffat and back, when he warned Ernest Jones of the folly of helping the Whigs, after spending his life in exposing the cruelty and villany of that party, &c., lls.” ...

... was felt here about six sharp r IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. only relieve the imperial exchequer. lu conclusion, complimented the Whig party upon having secured in East times civil and religions freedom to the country, [e held up Mr. Gladstone’s scheme to ridicule ...

... Pickford and Co. At the general election of Mr. Capper contested Sandwich in the Conservative interest, against two members of the Whig government—Lord Clarence Paget and Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen. He did not succeed at the first contest, but such was the popularity ...

... b« :”uiSor exau.pK when he de- gUd to have a go with the Torie.. A. for the i that the Catholic Church was established in Whigs, nothing would suit me better than to see one; if any w« He must have lost his wken my vision is gratified in that respect ...

... came into his hands ; but this did not matenaUy mcrease income. Sir Robert successfully contested NottSnghsm IS6I, against the Whig party (who LordLmcota, the present Duke of Newcastle, as their csnildateb mtd **® 1863, but was unseated for intimidation ...

... chief of the Liberal party. The second plan—the endowment of all although it had been the pet device of some of the ancient Whigs—was not only inconsistent with every theory of a State Church to which its defenders have ever lent the authority of their ...

... to apply r>oiti a of the surplus to the relief of unavoidable cm. miU. conversation ensued, principally carried on ly the Whig peers and the independent party among the Or potion, and satisfaction was expressed almost general! with the arrangement made ...

... received. It was well that did hear them, for he deserved them. Indeed the cenduct, not merely of Earl Granville, but of the other Whig peers who have supported Mr. Gladstone so loyally, is beyond * Mr. Baxter’s statement of what he has done at the Admiralty ...

... from Radical of tbe old Major Cartwright, philosophical school, who appreciated De Lolme, respected the Tories, detested the Whigs, and would have denounced the present race of revolutionary Radicals as Painiles,’’ term of opprobrium then equivalent to“ ...

... the hands of the Whigs. But like many other resolute persons he overdid it. He not only survived Lord Palmerston’s Ministry but Lord Derby's and Mr. Disraeli’s, and the consequence is that the patronage which he begrudged to the Whigs has fallen into the ...