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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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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- ...
... repressed violence without in- fringing liberty; and though not departing from the high cousti- tutional doctrines of the old Whigs, which he always professed, Lord Metcalfe carried into practice the best portion of those monarchical principles which the ...
... -the extension of slavery, cast but few votes; but its members finally coalescing with most of the Northern members of the Whig party formed the Republican party, which came into power in 1860. Meanwhile, in 1858, Mr l Adams was elected a member of Congress ...
... and succeeded his father in the baro- netcy in 1824. Two years later Sir James was returned for the city of Carlisle, in the Whig interest, to which party lie soon became an important acquistition. In 183' he was elected for the county of nCumberland, and ...
... was selected by Cardinal Wiseman to contest King's County at the general election of 185D. Although there were already three Whigs in the field, the young Irishman soon won favour by the independant dash of his addresses and his spirited attacks on the policy ...
... uncle to the present Duke of Westminster. Educated at Westminster and at Christ Church, he entered the House of Commons as Whig member for .Shaftesbury in 182'2, a seat which he held for four years. From 182' to 1847 he represented the city of Chester ...
... both in the court and a wI id as a consulting lmwyer. In 1841 he was appointed y- Advocate-Depute, in succession to Mr Robert Whig- sion en ham, who was made Sheriff of Perthshire. He ye- thei to mained in tthis office until 1845, vihen lie was appointed ...
... years, when he was transferred to the Senate, where he further served for two years. He ; then began to drift away from the Whig party, with I whom he had hitherto acted, and in 1 848 the newly- organised Free Soil party nominated him for the Vice-Presidency ...
... daughter of the C late Captain Ogstone. q At St. John's, Newcastle, on the 4th inst., Mr JAMES BRUCE, v Editor of the Northern Whig, Belfast, to ELIZs MARGARET, 0 youngest daughter of Mr Matthew Plaes, Newcastle. Ii Deaths. I' At 211, King Street, on the ...
... solemn, a lesson so striking, should~not be lost on us. , ,,, , The lastor nearly the last, survivor of tliat briiiant group of Whig barristers, who6so signally adorned thelegal profe6sion, and the .political history of Scotland-the 6larer qf the friend- ship ...