... of the Chair. It is well to contrast the action of the Whigs in 1835 on the occa- sion of the contest next preceding that of 1839. Sir Robert Peel was then the Leader of the House, and the Whigs, led by Lord John Russell, nominated Mr. Abercromby in ...

... Ghibelline. The parties themselves were of much older date, and the two terms may be said to have been in the Middle Ayes what Whig and Tory were in English history. The author thus discloses the political aspect of Tuscany about the middle of the 13th century ...

... Foreign Affairs if he were to resume that post, and the Temps this evening points out that it is just such another coalition of Whigs and Tories as that which was formed under Pitt, and governed England for 40 years, fighting against re- volution and Napoleon ...

... Majesties — which was brought into the Lords in January, 1693, by the Earl of Devonshire, the powerful representative of the Whig Party of the day, and dropped after being committed by a majority of five. Historians pass this highly important measure by ...

... That this meet- ing fully and heartily endorses the candidature of Mr. J. Sweetman, who has dealt a crushing blow to Irish Whig- gery, and we pledge ourf-elves to do our utmost to return him at tbe head of the poll. The seconder of the resolution was ...

... asanything like a perfect man. It certainly Id be ' fcr Defoe did some verj' dirty work in his I VOa and while serving both Whigs and Tories tim,t nlone y from either Party, and must have r - /vi-fi one or t,ie othcr ' or more P r °bably both, vr Wright ...

... and it was a curious fact that even the very name by which the Liberal Party had been known lor many generations -the name o: Whig -caiua irom the We->t or Scotland. (Cheers.) They knew what Liberal principles were, and they said that they did not recognise ...

... of Cottenham, twice Lord Chancellor — in 18MG and 1840— who, according to Mr. Russell Barker, was a steady and consistent Whig, a sound lawyer, and an exceedingly able judge. Sir John Patteson and Sir Barnes Peacock, both judges, and Pemberton Leigh ...

... interruption— if the Tory an d Unionist Party do not thiifk themselves com- pelled to follow precedents which not they but the Whigs have set in this matter, the fault will lie, not with the hon. and learned gentleman who has been put by his friends in a false ...

... peda- gogue, a curious _»ersonage in his day (he died aged seventy-two, in ?? who was, when in his prime, regarded as tlie Whig Johnson ; and Thomas Paine, author of tin* '-Rights of Man and the ?? Age of Reason.'' Mr. Stephen presents an excellent ...

... geniality of the Christmas season did not in the least degree soften the attacks on that statesman. Just then the doings of the Whig Club of England and the Select Com- mittee on the Loan were the main topics of home interest, together with the prospects of ...

... landowners ; but if you want to find two speci- men representatives of the landed interest, you will find them in the two great Whig Speakers, Mr. Denison and Mr. Lefevre. (Opposition laughter and cheers. ) I pass from the speech of the proposer of the hon ...