... when explaining the causes of the increase since 1835. Still it was that war which so seriously embarrassed our finances. The Whig Government found they had to deal with a defici- ency, and in 1840 tied to restore the balance by add- ing 10 per cent. to ...

... occupy as the leader of the free-trade party, both in Parliament and in the country. In 1841 a vote of want of confidence in the Whig Government of the day, proposed in the House of Commons by Sir Robert Peel, was carried by a majority of one. A dissolution ...

... while loyalty is considered to be a virtue, or mi- litary renown a passport to fame.-Time@. In politics, Lord Lynedochl was a Whig. Although his extreme age and enfeebled health long unfitted him for taking an active part in the turmoil of politics, lie ...

... the Presidency of Mexico. They add also that he intends to adopt the system of Free Trade. Loss or A Snie’s Crew.—The Belfast Whig of Thursday records a most melancholy catastrophe at sea, which took place on Tuesday night, some miles north of the Calf of ...

... election. Thierecessityfor such an. ,; inquiry has b.cn'rendiered more urgent fromthe-avi- '.dell attempt, on the' part of both Whigs end Tories, 32 to 'hush up' their corrupt pros'eedings by withdraw- is- inp the petition against lte' sitting rinembei5,: and ...

... patched to Scotland to summon Lord Panmure (Fox Maule), to London, in order, it is said, to ascertain the feelings of the Whigs, whether they are willing to support Lord J. Rassell’s new Reform bill. Itis understood that the principle of the new bill ...

... receive official re- wards, and dire rapidly pushed upwards in their profession. Devotedly attached to his party-to the old Whig branch of the Liberals-they had not the grace to bestow upon him the i-eward to which he was entitled by his services to the ...

... how:ver, was to these vexatious tests abolished. It was not a political, and Lad never been made a political, question. The Whig Government had uniformly refused to take it up as a Govern- ment—except in the last session of Parliament, when they earned ...

... of the State to shift from its moorings Ile dreaded that it would be stranded by the popular surge, when Earl Grey and the Whig statesmen of these days conceived that the strain was in the very opposite direction, which if not yielded to, would produce ...

... cordial assist- ance was the cause of his uverthrow. It is not easy to tell you exactly what I call myself—I call myself neither Whig nor Tory ; I think I can best describe myself by saying that I am liberal in feeling, and conservative in principle.” Mr Malcolm ...

... Government tossed from one hand to another, with no party strong enough to grasp them unassisted. Bat for this purpose a of Whigs, Peelites, and Economists, will be necessary. In this the Tunes thinks there is nothing improbable. But then comes the difficulty ...

... indispensahle . the I Duke of Sussex declaring fin favour of' thtese, anrl ^gailst thff existing M4inistry, became a decidedg Whig, and occasionally he proved himself a frrmi. ?? opponent, for he spoke with some fluency, possessed a competent acquaintance ...