... defeated by Mr. Bellew (Mr. Kennedy not having come forward), who sat until 1865, and when, as a reward for his services to the Whig party, he was appointed Poor. law Commissioner, he vacated the seat, Mr. M'Clintock and Mr. Tristram Kennedy contested it. ...

... which the Whig leaders, who recognized his claims, sacrificed place and power for a quarter of a century. Not all the obloquy to which the admission of the Roman Catholic tribune to the presence of the Sovereign in council subjected the Whig patrons of ...

... Irish Whigs, They gathered around his generous board, and discussed the hopes and fears of their party while they dis- cussed the flavour of hie wines. The' noble fortune he bad acquired by his profession was devoted to the maintenance of Whig power, ...

... younger brother of the Reeorder of Leeds, whose daughter married Sir Fransis Wood, a whig. baronet, and whose grandson is Sir Charles Wood, a Cabinet Minister under several Whig adminis- trations.' Mrs. Clarkson was for many years confined to the couch of an ...

... for that service. Murray, however, soon subsided into the function which might be called that of his life,-that of furthering whig elections and other interests, in Scotland first, and elsewhere when he could. In 1606 we find him busy canvassing in favour ...

... 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 ...

... editor of that journal. In the country lie was a popularfaiourite, though the plain speakiug he had practised towards the Whigs, wham he regarded as false to the cause of progress, lost him his seat at the general election in August, :1837. lie regained ...

... past session, on behalf of those who pay the taxes, have not rendered him more welcome to the great Whig party in Yorkshire. But even the territorial Whigs, we suspect, will be somewhat i puzzled. Lord MILTON represents Wicklow county, v and the Hon. GEORGE ...

... 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 ...

... knew that they bad no chance in such a contest, and so they refrained from putting up a candidate of their own, leaving the Whigs to bring out Mr. Acland as a moderate who was to receive Conservative support. To the alarm of Birmingbhamr men who remembered ...

... NEWS-LETTER, ?? 125,000 Northern Whig,. 65,000 Mercury, 62,000- Banner of Ulster, 76,000 It will thus be seen that the stamped circulation of the NEws-LrTTsrr was, for the twelve months ending June last, nearly double that of the Whig and Mercury-a fact which ...

... there was one great point on which he sbowedno disposition to syinpathise with the Whigs. He was no friend to Parliamentary reform; and when in 1830 he joined the Whigs, and supported the Reform Bill, he probably did so quite as much from a conviction ...