... contemporaries is the disappearance of another illustrious namefrom the roll of Whig nobility,-a name that carries back the memory to those palmy days of party politics when Whigs and Tories only contended for political ascendancy, when country gentle ...

... the accession of the Whigs in 1830, Sir James Scarlett's dereliction of political principle was visited upon him. His post was conferred by the new administration on Mr. Denman; and from that period to the close of his life, the Whigs encountered the unceasing ...

... till the year 1814. The military services rendered by his Lordship in India have bean the objects of warm approbation by the Whig Government and commensurate reward. For the performaice of those services he had been qualified by the experience which be ...

... work to the Whigs, and of resigning his Premiership,. but that the ''Whigs were unable to form a Government, though the refunal of Lord Grey to sit in the .same Cabinet with Lord Paltherstonm. The rast Earl 'Grey was the only one of the Whigs who stubbornly ...

... interests, and he never asked a favour. In politics lie .was peculiarly tenacious, without attaching himself to either the Tory, Whig, or, Radical party, and among his correspondents, he valued the late Sir John Sinclair, Mir. Coke, and other scientific Ag ...

... would have introduced r: binenoder acontinnance of thedidrdgiote, For Mangyears d of hia life Mr. Charls Pnnuey belongedeto the Whig party. .lla views, however, underwent a cbunge'sfter tbe riots, and D a morbid miatrust of the polpnlar power led him into ...

... tie Deanery for Weatonssuper-Mare.. .. ! I VW The Fox Club annuil fish dinner was. attended on Int Saturday, by a number.of Whig noblemen and' gentlemen, bet among whom m ?? . F. Davie, MB.P.. . :. : - . ap :. Tihe ; family of Lord Churston have 'been ...

... together with an ambition for distinction at the English bar which about this time powerfully affected the young Scottish Whigs. It is not difficult to imagine this ungainly Suotch lad, with his broad Fifeshire dialect, making his way through London, ...

... Lansdowne the Secretaryship of the Home Office, an offer which the marquis accepted, with the approbation of the best men of the Whig party. Under Canning's successor, Lord Lansdowno became Foreign Minister. These, however, were Ministries of short duration ...

... Decemnber:18l;..aund.'tseq'tjttA iad puly entered upoop his twenty-ifth yea. ..1ie Staadarddszpa,-The nsieG Chronicle denies that' Whigs would dissdive on xotsainaautdaoffice. We knowv that .tbey'..woild. because we kaew~'tbat :they must, bit a dissolution might ...

... the dissolutiois which took place in 1,30, owing to the state of his health. As a politician lie was a steady and consistent Whig. He lived to see the great object of his life accomplished. a Rhforin of the Commons House, and lie died full of years and ...

... celebrated Charles Jamns dFox, a man for whom 51r. Smith's admiration weeas irtense. I In 1800, through tile influence of the Whig ministry, lie a w'as appointed to a living in Yorkshire ; but lie was notlong L settled there, wvhen the cry of No Popery ...