... system of canals. His ability was soon recognised, and he was put in charge of the work at Beverly. In 1838 the defeat of the Whig Party and con- sequent political complications caused him to lose his place. With characteristic energy he tinned his attention ...

... manner in which extension of the Fran- chise has falsified the expectations of its original advocates. The Liberals of the Whig and Manchester Schools believed that when the -• nrasse.Y' obtained the vote, they would use it chiefly to advance their own ...

... to -n ?? . -■ '■ ■'•■■' mens on some of tire im ?? ?? : a ijrat: ?? of the hour. Since the t ■.:;• ti a : ?? Oral'.ieising Whigs in Ye a--a V- a- - France, no lint t rtuiieiit, a. . - '■' Michael Hicks Beach, ha-. i--.a a. ?? favourable a, position. It ...

... inside the Whig Cabinet he could wake it up, snap lingers at the Dukes. His mere presence would tinge the whole : a drop of live red blood iv a cup vi ditch water. And then what gnashing of teeth iv tho Tory camp when fronted with a coalition of Whigs and Radicals ...

... classical scholar, he had also a perfect mastery of French, and entered the House of Commons in ltj&3 with a plentiful stock of Whig prejudices as well as principles — one of tlie former being a certain well-bred and half- amused contempt for Theology as commonly ...

... democrat, i he had no particular objection to the nobility, j though ho preferred Shelburne to the King's j friends or to the Whig aristocracy. The ! . reforms which he advocated were such ' i as might bo adopted by any enlightened I legislator, not only ...

... rather, in our opinion, a proof of it. In his memorable affair with Mr. Disraeli — who was only quoting the words in which the Whigs themselves had described O'Connell, whom they were now prepared to use as an ally — the mistake which he made was not unnatural ...

... origin in iST_\ so far v . false position that, while insisting on ?? ! .: .: itself ono Party, it was in reality three ...

... the War Office, there was an end to the British Empire (cheers), and yet Sir W. Harcourt, who represented a consider- able whig of the Opposition believed that all the electors in this country who had done what many of them believed to be a patriotic ...

... London was the highest point, the highest expression, of Liberal enthusiasm, the strongest trust of the Party Leaders of the Whig or Liberal Party (cheers', in every part of Loudon ; and I remember, for I was living there, most of all in the borough of ...

... among others, Miss Monckton. the Duchess of Bolton, tiie Duchess of Hue- cleiich as the Witch of Endor, Mrs. Crewe (the famous Whig beauty) aud Lady Aluieriu Carpenter as ballad singers. Moving with great propriety and drollery among ali these 1 idles of ...

... Conaervativu Party, old landmark, jeomod to have vanished. Tories and Churchmen still looked to Gladstone to save them from his Whig colleagues. But they looked in vain. What probably interested Sir John Mowbray much anything was the University Itoform - BiU ...