... the mouth of Lord Russell:—“ln the session of ISIfl, when Sir Robert Peel had proposed th« repeal of the Coro Law, meeting of Whig Peers was held at Lunsdowne House, Lord Russell (then Lord John) being present. One spoke after another in favour of throwing ...

... contrary to the sound, sober, and honourable spirit of English statesmanship, which takes principle as its guide, whether it Whig or Tory, Radical or Independent. In the old days success was not the measure of man’s conviction. Under the Gladstnnian regime ...

... Rudyard Kipling.” The Ballad of the Last Suttee is the title of powerful poem ,4 Yussuf;” and the education of children, and the Whigs and Imperial Federation, are treated hy able writers. But the article of chief interest in this district is furnished hy Colonel ...

... island of Voorno, near Rotterdam. Lord Conway was its governor when named his little daughter Brilliana. {f.) This is equal to Whig and Tory. There are those living who remember the fame, if not the person, of staunch old Tory, of the most hospitable bent ...

... Lechmeres, with whom they were associated in hank. There was a Cupel Wall, Esq., of Taviftock-street, London, who voted (as a Whig) in that Gloucestershire election which raised high the heat of party, is shown in these pages. fe.) If we are not mistaken ...

... them to elect him in place of Sir Charles Barrow. was unknown in Gloucester, probably even to most of the members of the close Whig Corporation, under whose auspices he was brought forward, and it was deemed necessary to explain that his qualification was ...

... of party any sacrifice, and. to use a favourite expression of the late Abraham Lincoln, I kept pegging away until all the Whigs were pegged out of Herefordshire, and tbe county was represented by three good men and true, ‘Booker. King, and Hanhurv,’ whom ...

... a major of the Rifle Battalion. Major Probyn was Churchman. He inherited the politics of his father, who was one of the old Whig magnates of the county; but during the latter portion of his life politics had, we believe, no great attraction for him, and ...

... one when feelings of personal sentiment should h« thrown aside, and loyal man should not consider whether the Government was Whig or Tory, but whether it was an administration that would uphold the maintenance of the Union; and once being satisfied on the ...

... perpetuate on each Fourth of February the victory, a majority of one vote, which Mr. John I iit, Tory, gained over Mr. Howard, Whig, prolonged contest, the year 1780, for the Parliamentary representation of Gloucester, was held at the Bell Hotel on Wednesday ...

... one of the chief subjects of debate. Then the Pittites and the Foxites coalesced and called themselves Kingites, and now the Whigs and Tories had coalesced and called themselves Unionists. Those of the old True Blue preferred the name Conservatives, and ...

... Administrative Battalion. He took active part in many of the stirring Parliamentary elections in Stroud, his politics being of Whig complexion. It was he who in June, 1853, when the present Earl of Ducie succeeded to the peerage, introduced and proposed the ...