... has lately repudiated the intention. Lord Cairns is also believed to have shrunk from the task. Lord Westbury, a backsliding Whig, who has taken umbrage at the present Government because hie merits were insufficiently recognised, was named as the leader ...

... a House of 144. On June 17, 1850, a motion of the same statesman, then Lord Stanley, disapproving the foreign policy of the Whig 'Government, was carried in a House of 190 members. When the Suspensory Bill was rejected last year the contents mustered only ...

... take him for all in all, equal to honest Lord John; and he world have been able, as well as the latter, to direct one or two Whig Cabinets. He only wants a slight touch of ill-temper to have the requisite qualities of a party leader. If ever his biography ...