ENGLISH PARTIES AND POLITICS
... LORDS TEMPORAL. In bidding farewell to his constituents previous to his elevation to the peerage, Lord Russell de- scribed himself as feeling like the chief mourner at his own funeral, The House of Lords seemed to him a political tomb. This view of it is not pe- culiar to the period subsequent to the Reform Act of 1832. When Pulteney and 'Walpole met, the one having just become Earl of Bath, ...