... for Fiiiglisii Essaj-. With these credentials as a passport to public life he was elected in 1^47 for county Louth. He was a Whig of a type of which there are few survivals, and his Parliarnentnry career was ono of steady and unexciting success. After seven ...

... his mark, and Lord Ashbourne quotes from the Rutland MSS. an exclamation of the Earl of Derby of that day, then an orthodox Whig — '• D — n the fellow, he speaks so well, I wish his throat was cut. Pitt, as we know, was Shelburnes Chancellor of the Exchequer ...

... bo found in the situation of the Whigs during tiie reign of Georoe TV. In 18_!l Mr. Tierney resigned the Leadership of the Opposition in the House of Commons, and from that time till the Spring of 1830 there was no Whig Leader in the Lower House to whom ...

... they had previously been approved of without these obnoxious adjectives. Tiie reason of this was, said Mr. Disraeli, that the Whigs had chanced to find out that at the last moment the Government intended to accept them ; and as it was absolutely necessary ...

... iirst half of the present century, and especially those which are concerned with the strange adventures of the aristocratic Whig Leaders when they coquetted with the people in the era of Reform, are various passing allusions to Francis Place (Longmans) ...

... generous career, who, ap- parently, did not understand nationality, and. with all his airy gaiety, was at, bottom a dry, hard Whig, who cared for nothiug in politics but a majority. My countrymen, Mr. Disraeli observed smilingly, were not of my opinion— ...

... Conservative interest for West Somerset, and being returned at the head of the poll with a majority of five hundred over his Whig colleague, Mr. Sanford, took his seat among those country gentlemen of England whom Sir Robert Peel was so proud of lead- ing ...

... Parliament, and pointed out tbat tbe question of the change was constantly mixed up with tne incompetence or otherwise of the Whig Government. Ho especially pointed out that by the introduction of the Chandos Clause, solely due to Party interests, the counties ...

... as a taken advantage of his les and James, hut i v accomplished he . si le into ;i Doge, ■ withcut brains enough the cive.it Whig James amused .. ...

... Government, and especially its at^tude towards France. He says : — The speeches of Sir William Harcourt and other Leaders of the Whig Party ?? have cautioned the English against the Conservative polie - set forth by the words and acts of it., most turbulent ...

... ive talents ; . v r + ,rose, and, perhaps, did not wish ? ■-* s^] t , ont rank - He was a Whig of i' X iL, last surviving relic, in public ?? cn ts.of the Whig Party as it was ?? s r ...

... the position he had already gained as a Radical politician, that, un- congenial as many of his views must have been to the Whig Premier, that Statesman, in 186_, offered him one of the Lordships of the Admiralty. Mr. Stansfeld accepted the offer, but ...