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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...