... that statesman gave the bias to his mind which ever afterwards remained with himnamely, a general determination to support whig measures, but not to be a paity man. Mr. Whitbread’s untimely death he was unanimously elected to fill the vacant seat of M ...

... manfully, and fought with a courage the memory which yet remains ; and when, by means of a combination of Protectionists and Whigs, Lord John Russell was placed in office, Sir James helped to preserve the ministry in their free-trade career. were days of ...

... he took his stand in the presence the Whig dignitaries of whom he had spoken evil, and of the puzzled country gentlemen, who could nut understand how their Toryism was more democratic than the politics of the Whigs, who were wont to drink to civil and ...

... speak what lie thinks. I need scarcely observe, then, that he is original ; other definition him can I give, lie is neither Whig, Tory, nor Radical. I believe the author of Who is Who” would puzzled describe to what class the member for West Surrey belongs ...

... measure led to their downfall. Ihe course of action open to this conference was somewhat difficult. Thevhad to deal now with a Whig-Radical-Conservative Government, and since the Cabinet must decide within the next month what the nature of their Reform Bill ...

... which should guide us our commercial intercourse with the nations were decidedly protectionist. opposed the motion of the thou Whig Government, to substitute for the sliding scale eight shilling fixed duty the imports of corn, well as Lord John Russell’s ...

... money, we have reason to believe, is wasted in this way than in any other. Next arises the question of political reform, which Whigs, Tories, and Radicals alike, are so desirous to see quietly and peacefully settled. Mr, llright, the leader of the independent ...

... grounds where Addison, • Charles James Fox, Burke, Sheridan, Horner and Mackintosh, Rogers and Sydney Smith, Tom Moore, and every Whig celebrity between the times of Fox and Lord Melbourne, walked and talked, may be cut into squares aud terraces. If true, what ...

... wasted in party discussions, and the general election. The Reform BiU of the Conservatives satisfied few, and that of the Whigs was not brought forward. Questions pressing importance were passed over. For all practical purposes Parliament might well not ...

... rib’s success, and that of a still greater man before him, Sir Robert Walpole, who kept the Hanover family the throne and the Whigs in office for many years. ...

... resignation of the Secretaryship at War by Mr. Canning, L ad Palmerston took the vacant place, and filled it until 1828. When the Whigs came into power, Palmerston became Secretary of State f-r Foreign Affairs, and represented South Hants, and ultimately the ...

... marked change of ministers: Lord Derby gave way to Lord Palmerston, with broad-bottomed following, for it included, with old Whigs, the best remains of Peel and few decided Radicals —indeed, one Quaker, professor of peace principles, not in the Cabinet, ...