... CONTEMPORARY OPINIONS, (Ft-om the Globe. I The death of the Earl of Derby is a national misfortune. Whigs and Tories, Radioals and Conservatives, will all Join in lamenting the extinction of one of the brightest stars in our political sky. We Englishmen ...

... the sports of the time-was yet alive; his a father occupied a seat in the House of Commons 1 as an adherent of the old Whig party; and i young Stanley naturally ranged himself on the f same side. For three years, however, the man E who was hereafter ...

... aristocracy. His father, the pre- i ceding earl, was the Whig member for Lancashire during nearly the whole of his life ; and his grandfather was a friend of' Charles James Fox and of the other brilliant Whig leaders of that age. For nearly 400 years, indeed ...

... firet object, and the obtaining of office only the second. The writer even holds out for their imitation the example of the Whig party in the reigns of George IIl. i and George IV., who remained out of office for 40 years rather than give up their opinions ...

... writing about than a parrot would. IM He vindicated his conduct in opposing the 'Duke in of NXellington and in joining the Whigs. He censured the extravagance of the civil list. He hi condemned the duke for trusting to uncon- hi atitutional influences ...