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... Somerville, who, before going into business, was the confidential clerk and friend of Henry Erskine, the leader of the Scotch Whigs and brother of the Lord Chancellor of England. Mr Russel appears to have been originally in- tended for a printer, but he changed ...
... scope and play, and it was his delight to furnish them with ample nutriment. In politics he was.., like his father, a staunch Whig, and in religion a steady adherent of the Established Church of Scotland; and there was no measure of local or general benevolvence ...
... maintaining a cordial friendship with Fox, Grey, and the leading Whig Statesmen, and zealous oppo- nents to the American and Freich revolutionary wars. In consideration of his uniform support of Whig principles of government he was elevated to the House of Lords ...
... Lord Carnarvon and same others of the Whig party, oppos- ed that measure as of too sweeping a character, and on that accounlt ilcarred a consir~derable degree of public obloquy ; but wve Lave been a-sered by a Whig Merilcr of the preaeat House of Commons ...
... cannot but see that there were fault' of conduct on both sides, and that the ardent, but often not well-timed efforts of the Whigs to bring about organic reforms, were met by an ill-judged and harsh severity on the part of the then overbearing and narrow-minded ...
... Courier contains a long and fdiondly notice of this gentleman, who, as Mr. Hannay of Carlingviork, was a Nvell-known Galloway Whig in the years preceding the Reform Bill, and twice clololy contested the Dumfriee burgbs after it, w ith' General Sh arpe of ...
... political s3oldier; he had entered with all his heart into the battle of Reform; and from that time forward he held in the great Whig army a place, if not of command, yet of trust and influence. Perhaps no man was better acquainted than he with the secret history ...
... take pluee on Friday. next. IRS IRISH INTHLLIGEIV;CB, COMMUTATION OP SENTENCES. Belfast, Wednesday Brorning. The Sortlhern Whig of this morning says It has rebeived a ?? telegram from Mrs. Herdman, who in now il Dublin, announcing that his Excellency ...
... that Ma: journal. In the country he was a popular favourite, I though the plain speaking he had practised towards 'lect the Whigs, whom he regarded as false to the cause of uerf progress, lost him his seat at the general election is Dlli Aug., 1837. He ...
... thik arithor's end, Siocr tesve east rorrct ssmoere tliesthiley irteed. Lookiig, then, sit Earl Gr')y as ass aristeerrtirc Whig, roe elrst regrred ti ns is trioV iltlstiiotti Onla5 . Ile ?? tbhorc the held of trusekling statneostsa oflr teo present day ...
... territory to .slavery, gradually alienated C him from that party, - while his address to the c Massachusetts Whigs, on The Auti-Slavery h Duties of the Whig Party, tended to increass that ?? in 1848 he was asociatedt 'ith the Free Soil party and gave them efficient ...
... 1847 to 1869,when he stcceed-ed his father in the mnarquisate. In 187-4 he was created Duke of Westminster, being one of the Whig dukes of ildr GladIstone's creation, but at the time of the first introduction of his great leader's Iome Pbule Bill his convic- ...