... Brocas. It then passed away from that family and became 'a post in the gift of the Sovereign. Daring the ascendancy of the great Whig families, when there was a recasting and rearranging of offices, the post being one of profit under the Crown, was made dependent ...

... League has received the important adhesion of one of the founders of the Free Church of Scotland, Lord Moncreiff, a zealous Whig, who was Mr. Gladstone's Lord Advocate, and whom he made Lord Justice Clerk and a Peer. The Free Church separated from the ...

... in the politics of her tile. Her method of winning votes for the Whigs was by laying siege to maen s hearts, and so gaining them over to her side. She Iwas called the Queen of the Whigs, and it is said that she won the Westminster election for Fox, ...

... the seals of office for a short time; but after the General Election of I835 Lord Melbourne became Prime Minister, and the Whigs in the Lower House thought themselves justified in again putting their candidate forward for the post of Speaker. This time ...

... years ago should stand him in good stead, and make him an admirable Governor-General. The Eatls of Minto have been strong Whigs for generations. The first Earl, Sir Gilbert Elliot, was Envoy Extraordinary to Vienna in 1779, and Presi- dent of the Board ...

... 1- Long before he died, in 1878, the old Whig creed which he peroti- o fied was dead and forgotten. I- The Administration of i868 was a long-lived one; but before it Ly was out of office the old leader of the Whig party had bitter reaeon )f to regret having ...

... being an assertor of the Queen's government. The Tory pamphleteer assets that the compassing of elections and the returning of Whig nominees were the main business of the association. According to Sir Richard Blackmore-who ought to have known -we find the ...

... two great political Parties be n reduced to such extremity as thiat of the present Oppasition. Neither in the case of the Whigs before the passing of the Reform Bill, nor in that of the Tories after the Peelite schism rent the Party in twain, did the ...

... beginning of the century. When Pitt and Fox were alive there was one bench set apart in the House for the use of Privy Councillors. Whig or Tory, or what- ever they might be, Piivy Councillors sat on this one bench. TIe contiguity of members of opposing politics ...

... Wray-and was at his last gasp: The party were driven to new resources, and the Duchess of Devonshire restored the fates of the Whig cham- pion. 'The progress of the canvass thenceforward is amusing. The entire voters of Westminster having been exhausted ...

... chairmen, butchers, sweeps, coalheavers, and the honest mob, equally hired for these demon- strations by their opponents. Whig candidates would be, with diffi- culty, rescued from imminentperil of life and limb, and the other side approached the hustings ...

... Commons, the Duke of Devonshire, though a prized and powerful ally of the Opposition, still maintains the traditions of a great Whig family by sitting in Opposition to the Conservatives. When, on Tuesday night, Earl Spencer had made an end of speaking, the ...