... of Com- mons as member for Winchelsea in 1826. Lord Howick, as be was then known, like his father, was a member of the old Whig party, then in a somewhat forlorn and hopeless condi- tion. He speedily distinguished himself as a bold, if not. a very brilliant ...

... bad at his finger's ends, and it was quite impossible to confute him. Belonging as he did to a great Whig family, and to the class which Tories and Whigs alike regarded as inheriting tte right of governtment, he commanded respect even when Le wtas in a ...

... Commercial Treaty with France (1860) was concluded and the Paper Duty abolished (1861). In 1865 died l-ord Palmerston, the great Whig, ewo had managed to stem the swelling tide of Democracy and Radicalism. Earl Russell became Prime Minister, with MIr. Gladstone ...

... time a constant guest at Lord John 'Russell'I house on Rlchmotd Hil and fas a Whig politician in the limited way that Lady Palmerston and some dozen or. more lddies were when Whigs and Peelites were powers in the State. Her husband died in 1891. An affection ...

... for himself, the rude, sifting tests which have since tried the Liberal rank-and-file and made it no longer possible for the Whig and the Radical and the easy-going indifferentist to walk in peace and amity towards the good things of office together. The ...

... Irish Church question Pnd his handling of the Irish Land Bill wzre so mucrh btter than they were accustomed to look fur from Whig peers. Besides, Lord Carlingford's manners and style of speech di nramed hostility. Lord Carliugford hbd estates in Somersetahire ...

... I nor did he like, the idea of reforming it. MARK PATTISos adiserl his friends to dine vith the Tories, and vote -with the Whigs. 1 Lord GRIANVILLE was happy to think with the i Commons and to sit with tho Lords. There is no evidence that he -was ever ...

... with tne times. He was an enthusiastic adherent as well as a priva;e friend of Mr. tladstone's, and was one of the vcr-. ew Whigs who accompanied the Liberal leader in his transition to Home Rule. fle was esteemed an excellent man of business, easy-going ...

... earlirir years to Tite Quarterly Review, and in 1l6bS he stiaceadidfSir- George Cornewnll Lowia Iin the oditorshiplof the groat Whig organ. flis-editor- ship of ,The lldinbhurgh Roview was the obief A literary interest of hi~s life, arid hie hold it for ...

... it of SirAlasx er Doa. Hle vws mroatpopular, alike in the d House of Commons, and in london society. He was a f traditional Whig, a capital host, and in 'former ?? Cy one of the best-drezaed of wen. He was a strougg a . Chmchman, an exemplary landlord ...

... of Marl- horoughbecamesupreme. The Queen had a far less powerful will than her favourite, who acquired such power that the Whig Government relied on her for support, and she became in a great measure the dispenser of patronage. She was said to have made ...

... This cir- cam'sranRCC would seem tlo show that Sir Robert Peel' cotlit lay no claim to originality in his deans with the W~higs. Sonmc of the northern Imermaids are quit-o honsowifely pert-ens, and whnseea are generally washing clothes. 'The too per'-'sment ...