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THE THEATRE—MR AND MRS CHARLES KEAN

... manifest ere a few of the earlier scenes have passed, that the leading idea was suggestedi by the character of the generous Whig Morton, in the Old Mortalitv of Sir Walter Scott. Strathmore is the I Morton of the tragedy, and Catherine torn, the Edith ...

LITERATURE

... Pasha, who is going to make so moch noise. H~e wias born a Georgian (not a Jla- uchbie) Christian, and wvas, consequently, a Whig from his Icradle. He was kidnapped proml his parents at six years old, and wans sent to Constantinlople to be a slave, and ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... sounding in the river, on the site of the railway bridge intended to cross the Boyne below the town of Drogheda. The Nortiern Whig congratulates its readers on the success that has attended the efforts to restore the iron manufacture in Ireland. In Belfast ...

FUGITIVE F. M. IANA

... out-doer assembly, nod told them all that the Duk~e of W~ellingtoin had told me. Oh! howv they cheered! ---But the Liberals-the Whigs of' Huddorstield-were angry' Never could they forgive me for having obtained the cheers of the people for one whom they had ...

Literature

... on Lord John Russell, for nos withdrawing from the late Government three months before lie resigned, and the leader of the Whigs is openly accused of a dereliction of duty. On the whole the number is worthy of the vigour with wxhichl this establishbed ...

Literature

... lowing is a glimpse of the WHIGS AND TORIES. The generic divisions of Whbig and Tory had undergone a great change since the commencement of the century. The distinction betveen Whigs and Patriots-that is W~higs in office and Whigs in Opposition no longer ...

EXTRACTS FROM NEW BOOKS

... ; and to these he unites administrative and oratorical talents of a very high order. As First Lord of the Admiralty on the Whigs' accession to office in 1830, and again when the Russian war broke out in 1854, he evinced a degree of vigour and capacity ...

EXTRACTS FROM NEW BOOKS

... Calhoun, from South Carolina, although the advocate of sou1thern rights an linti ri isg chaimipion of slavery ; acd oii thc Whig side, to Mr Clayton, of I)cla vare, Nwithl his strong practical sense; to Mr Crit- teaden, one of the most ac'comiplislhed ...

Literature

... A iroor poet, a cuetrairing prose wrilter-, silo had a a dcsicrtc, rapid, aird subtelle iurtolligettee, which tried its a whigs at cvrty sttbject, alighited for a moment, rueverI -penetratingl beneath tire sufrc oucrigth lr 5 omly with tire point of her ...

Literature

... ellow, corrus- Y Cating inito teio most eccentric alnd many-coloured sparks-wh1eu Patt was yolngi as well as gay-when the Whigs wvere acquiring instead of' losing confidence C in Lord John-when Wordsworti's reputation as a poeut was still matter ol'd ...

Literature

... itfirmitici of a WIlig critic, lie certainly had also its extrinsic atid political advantages. Especially nt El'inliurgh, the Whigs wantied a literary man. The Liberal party in Scotland had long groaned utinder political exclusion they bad suffered, witt ...

Literature

... Charles James Fox if -the Duke of uluckilgham's :Memoirs of the Court I and Cabinets ?? the Third-and Memoirs of d the Whig Party during my Time by Lord Holland - -it will be ?? that the materials employed are of 2t the most valuable description ...