... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... wh)o amassed a lup fortune, sufficet to provide, for eaci; oi his children, was an Ardent poS i. oian,; at fret rof6saing Whig .r 'nl~d~s, lnt' rtat-ionh the.inant kion arousee 0 ahim - bji M of tho party at that time, and partly through the influence ...

... FIRST PREMIIERSHIP. g We now come to the period when Mr. Gladstone was to become leaded instead of ?? and Radical instead of Whig, and was to exercise a more commanding influence than he had yet done over the history of his country. This period, however ...