... Government was tottering to its fall. A to lower the duty on foreign sugar in the of 1841 led the Tories to join issue with the Whigs, and Ministers were beaten by 36 votes. A direct vote of no confidence was then moved by Sir Robert Peel himself, and it was ...

... they appeared to have considered was which side had the freer hand and the longer purse. The Duke of Somerset represented the Whig interest aud Lord Bruce or the Earl of Ailesbury that of the Tory. The election of 1705 was keenly contested at Marlborough ...

... and instantly resigned. This g:i.fmion was follov.d“:{ the formation of the ition Cabinet—of a ition, that is, between the Whigs, the Peelites, and Radicals. Mr. Gladlwn.meeivodduwdchmlludtho Exchequer, and the ord Conservatives vainly opposed his re-election ...

... the present (Lord Palmerston’s) Chancellor of the Exchequer.” His Farnes. Mr. Gladstone's father was a man of mark. He was & Whig and a Presbyterian, a sound man of business, and in l'etli'z a merchant-prince of Liverpool. The firm with which he was connected ...

... principles. If, therefore, Radicalism is dead, it is because all Liberals | have become Radicals, thanks to the secession of the Whigs, the trimmers, and those who never knew what they were, so that a Radical group as distinet from the Liberal party in general ...

... the defaultiug deputy, earning the money by bis writings. Later on he was awarded a civil pension of £3OO per annum, by the Whigs on their accession to office. His later years were darkened by dom- stic bereavements, his sons and daughters all preceding ...

... before Parliament met in 1867 it became known that the Ministry had determined to take s ‘tleap in the dark and “dish the Whigs by granting far more than had been proposed by them and refused by the ?eurvatives only a few months previously. It took ...

... in society, thoug brilllant, was not protractel. He was offered by Lord Moria, who held a positon of much influence in the Whig Government of the day, the post of Registrar to the Court of Admiralty at E;ru\uh. Moore accepted it, though to do him justice ...

... parties will lose 4l of ground. The Ultramon ...

... with the bea: \with Nature. He has often related the charming g representative to make enquiries and to be at tbefiend of the whig. He never complained to me that b impression creatod on his mind, when first coming to # Induest. The lad died in the Savernake ...