... second, and defeating Mr. Protheroe votes. On each occasion Mr. Bright was brought forward by what was then called the old Whig and West Indian interest, Mr. Protheroe, his opponent, being a more advanced Liberal. At the election of 1 83 ...

... does all this urgency mean why is Lord Stanley's adhesion implored and solicited with alternate threats and praises by the Whig organ? Rumour gives some curious reasons for it: his own party, it says, are not sure of Mr. Gladstone—they do not know where ...

... present Lord Derby, who was summoned in his father's barony. With the accession of Lord John Russell to power in 1846 the old Whig system was revived, and since that time no less than seventy-three new peerages have been added to the roll of the House, of ...