... to the Whigs, carried the Church Temporalities Bill and the measure for emancipating the West India slaves, being then Colonial Secretary and member the Cabinet. In 1834, however, he may be said to have separated himself for ever from the Whigs ; when ...

... whose learning and services, it might have been hoped, would have procured him some modest church preferment from Liberal, or Whig, or Tory premier. But one and all passed him over, and even bishops and chapters took no heed of him, and so it comes to pass ...

... a '' withdrawal the part of the Conservatives from the race of office,*' and a consistent and resolute upholding of the Whigs and moderate Liberals against the Radical section of the Ministerial majority, even at the cost of excluding themselves from ...