... similar story is told of Lord Palmerston and John Day—the Honest John in a turf sense. Lord Derby's immediate ancestors wean Whigs of the old school. His grandfather kept a pack of staghounds in Surrey, and maintained a wonderful breed of game - cocks at ...

... Speaker as long as he pleased if he had not imprudently joined his friend Lord Lyndhurst in a political opposition to the Whigs, by whose consent he had been elected Speaker to the first Reformed Parliament. Curiously enough, the present Speaker, Mr. ...

... that Lord Foley, after a few hours' illness, died at the Hotel Bristol on Saturday morning. Lord Foley was teller of the Whig party in the House (if Lords for several years, and during several administrations, including the present, hold the coert ap- ...