... these points. At all events, we see that so early as i833 Macaulay had begun to doubt whether he could continue to act with the Whig party, and this was one of his reasons for accepting the appointment in India. And again, in .1852, he declined to join Lord ...

... the House of Commons. In i830 Lord Lansdowne returned him to Parliament for the family borough of Calne, and as soon as the Whigs came into power he was made a Commissioner of the Board of Control, and a few months afterwards Secretary. At the general election ...

... sincere, and the rejection of then was strongly condemned by many members of the Whig party. Sir George Lewis, though he recognizes the honour and integrity of the Whig leaders, believes them to have been mistaken in refusing these proposals, and seems ...

... borough of Preston under peculiar circumstances-appearing with Sir Henry Hoghton as the nominees of the Earl of Derby, the great Whig peer of the neighbourhood, in opposition to the Tory candidates, Sir Peter Leicester and Sir Frank Standish, supported by the ...