... the Church of England, and in polities was a Whig of the old school: His family were long the agents of the Whig party at the old eleetions iniPreston. So prominently identified was his family with thes Whig party that they were never admitted in the ...

... wait upon party, and ever: anxious to see progress made.a Had the party conipromised their differences by bringing forward a Whig in conjunction with Sir 'Joshua, all would have been well; but the Radicals were numerically the strongest half, and they chose ...

... EBrl of Derby, We r ?? that a chasm that hee been created by his death .a political society. All societies, whether they $,e Whig or Tory, regret his death, and all wish tiit. he may be followfed by a ?? worthy oi th name; and, confid in that, I trmet that ...

... isreaeved, wri in the first tervour of the Fre revolution, in which she givesalivelaccount of the news - mitted daly to the Whig magnat ?? s r. Coke's great house-; and it is but the other day tIt, uable any lonyer to read for herself, ash was eagerly ...

... became connected with the Edinbrnlh n ?? his first article, we believe, was on Bosworth's A4slo L Saxon Dictionary. The great Whig review Was be- ginning to lose sonethingof the brillianey and das-hwh l had characterised its golden age. Jeffrey, Sydney Sait ...

... of. that journal. ln the countrv he was a C a popular favourite, though the plain s5)eaking he had c l ractied towards the Whigs, whom he regarded as false to the cause of progrcss, lost hiem his seat at tj t the general election in August, 1837. He regained ...

... his deaths in political seicet we also regret that a chasiti equally apparent is found ill all societies, whether they bte Whig or Tory. All regret his death, and wish that he may he folo d by a Successor worthy of the nacue; and confiding in that matter ...

... industry, such as Bil-miagham and otller large to-wns. During the Caonning Administration, which inclu'ded some of thle leading Whigs amongr its mem- bers, Lord -John -discontinued ?? efforts -in the direction of parliamentary reform; In 12,however, he carried ...

... baronet, represented Preston in the IParliaments of 1710, 1715, 1728, and 1715. His nephew, Sir Henry, was a candidate on the Whig or Derbyite inter- test, at the great election in 1768,' along with Colonel H, Burgoyne, and although they were not returned ...

... managemenit of the London and Brighton m, t Railway, of which compauy, in 1845, be became fOL chairman. Oa the replacement of the Whigs in 1546, he was brought back into office as secretary b to the Postmaster-General, in which position and as secretary to the ...

... the old Select Vestry of the town-a body which became obsolete years ago. In politics, the deceased gentleman war formerly a Whig. HQ took the chair at a reform meeting: in our Corn Exchange on the 28th of MIarei, i:11i.. Latterly, however, he was a Co ...

... the'repressen- ?? tatires returned lied been Peter 1Heeketh Fleetwood, Esq. me (COnlservsi-ve), and the Hon. H. T. Stanley (Whig), who Cot had been c~pcosed by Colonel Thompson (Radical), and sib Mr. Thomas 'Smith (Liberal), of Liverpool, a friend and ...