... adhered to the politics of his family, who had for some time been enrolled among the Whig and it was soon clear that he would prove a formidable rival to the rising young Whig of that period, Lord John Russell. It was not, however, until 1824 that he made ...

... several successive Sessions from June, 1846, until February, 1852, in which Lord John Russell presided over the destinies of the Whig Government—was manifested by his yet well-remembered participation from time to time in the discussions of the hereditary branch ...

... of the constituency. In Bridgwater, at any rate, it appears that coercion is an element in the strength of the Liberals. A Whig agent states before the Commissioners, as a ground of reasonable expectation that his side would win, that “most of the employers ...

... second speech, which attracted great attention and excited much astonishment, as proceeding from the representative of great Whig family. The speech retains its interest still as showing that, at the early age of twenty-six, Earl Derby was moved by the ...

... neglected North American dominions. Fiscally, moreover, the Cabmet met the deficiency of L.4,000,000, bequeathed to them by their Whig predecessors by faithfully adhering to the pre-arrangement of a graduated diminution of the income-tax, evading at the same ...

... His ministerial statement in the House of Lords, on Friday, the 27th of February—exactly one week after the downfall of his Whig predecessors—closed, after a candid foreshadowing of his intended policy, with a peroration eloquently expressive of sentiments ...

... has remarked, deserves to steady „ it , in ,„ the abolition of slavery was camV/l ~ , . , wu ™* out under the auspices of a Whig Government, ten years previously Mr Canning had proposed that steps should be adopted calculated to ameliorate the condition ...

... his memory has been subjected. Lord Derby’s share in the establishment of Household Suffrage was a perfectly honest one. The Whigs had for whole generation been jobbing in Parlia- ...

... answer their own mean ends. Finally, when the Democratic party became too powerful thus to be played with any longer, the Whigs were once more ready w their pitiful attempts to make capital out of Reform, and they preferred that which Mr Bright forgetful ...

... Administration. These two questions, then, of Parliamentary Reform and foreign policy were the two questions on which the Whigs founded their distrust of Lord Derby, and their own claims to public confidence. The sequel is instructive. Their total failure ...