... said, has nine lives ; how many Lord John lias it is impossible tell. Twice last session committed, the opinion of every man, Whig, Tory, Radical, political suicide, and yet is again spoken coming back office. is clear London won t have him again, but tho ...

... every one was annoyed. But Hume did not speak long; and from the back benches, where sit what are usually termed the fine old Whigs, where, during the continuance of the Aberdeen cabinet, were always found S r George Grey and Vernon Smith ; always ready and ...

... Consols, which closed on Wednesday at 871, rose to 894, or an advance of 3 per cent, on Tuesday’s yrices. Evening Post, the Irish Whig organ, in its number of Thursday evening, thus refers t»the effect of the news upon the public mind here : “In Dublin the agitation ...

... the state of trade or of the money market. was of very courteous manners, but of retiring disposition, politics Mr. Brown was Whig, but he never took active art political affairs. He was a magistrate for this borough, and also lor the West Kidiug. _ can ...

... although his own election was considered certain by his friends, the contest had been between him and liberal. Mr. Somers is the Whig candidate, and it is expected will have Lord Palmerston’s influence, which very strong in that locality. • • «l ill* Sliiiijiiii® ...

... laborious duties of that office will be undertaken by the Duke of Somerset. This will bo a great change for the belter. As an old whig official no one worked harder than Lord Sevmour. may say this, notwithstanding the occasional breaches of etiquette, or rather ...

... ever have been the leading man in the House of Commons; but you must remember, the first place, he is the son of the great Whig ducal family ; in the second place, he has done much for progress the past; in the third place, speaks the true House of Commons ...

... which do not commence with the two or three tirst letters of the alphabet. One the Perl School.— Look at young Stumble, said a Whig to a Torv, as that distinguished budding Peehte was scrambling through a hriary speech, That makes the tenth orange he’s got ...

... fell a victim to his zeal endeavouring to maintain the law. At the time of Jobbing’s trial an old law had Leen revived the Whigs which condemned a murderer the gibbet. Jobbing was the only person, believe, gibbetted under act; but great were the horror ...

... the crime, being influenced thereto superstition. The Oyster and the Shell.— about the 15th of May, 1854, says the Northern Whig, a Mrs.|Vlacartney made will, leaving, with the exception of few trifling articles, all her property, to her daughter, Mrs ...

... the earldom he relinquished all active share in politics, although he uniformly Kive his support in the House of Lords to the Whig party. In ccembcr, 1816, he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Kent, on the resignation of the late Earl of Thanct ...

... most successful orators, and succeeded in maintaining a posithm second, and only second, to Cobden and Bright. In 1846, the Whigs, anxious to please the people, and having personal objections to Cobden and Bright, made Milner Gibson Vice-President of the ...