... admitted to practice in 1823 ; he entered the New York Legislature in 1828, where he was a Whig and anti-maeon ; he was eleoted to Con- gress in 1832. The Whig ascendancy in 1841 brought him prominently forward as a political leader and worker, but not ...

... ely the conduct of the Opposition deprives these deb ites of the English Parliament of some of their usual authority. The Whigs know well enough what would be their fate if tbey challenged the Ministry to a regular battle ; therefore, they content themselves ...

... with personal liberty. They would (he said) give to the Roman CathoUcs every right they themselves enjoyed, but from neither Whig nor Tory would they bear legislation op- posed to individual liberty. ...

... Party to be in their places when the division is called. It is confidently expected tbat every member will be present. A Whig- gist member stated, amid some amusement, that if Mr. Gladstone made the question one of want of confidence, he should not ...

... capable than he of acting as a sort of amalgam to hold together warring elements. The suggestion shows curiously how the old Whig traditions survive even in the New Radicalism. Mr. Labouchere insists tbat a Radical majority means a Radical Minis- try, that ...

... you will say with me that .men who have no belief in the Divine revelation are not the men to govern this nation, be they Whigs or Radicals : and certainly such Liberalism affords a tolerable indication of that policy by which they would thus tear up ...

... great Yorkshire magnate, Lord Lieutenant of the North Biding, patron of the borough of Richmond, amuoh respected member of the Whig party, till lately the Head of the Freemasons, and an enthusiastic supporter of the Turf. Thomas Dundas, now just deceased ...

... MR. MARTIN F. TUPPER Tho London correspondent of the Northern Whig states that a committee has been formed with Lord Headley as chairman, and including Mr. Ruskin, Mr. Robert Browning, and Col. Burnaby, to raise a fund for presentation to Mr. Martin P ...

... Brought down his mountain band ; The Southern race in rout they chase, Claymore and targe in hand. The Lowland prig, and canting Whig, In headlong flightsjwere roll'd ; c o c * « Oh, wondrous Graham ? Herculean frame. And faith sustained by fear ! Thou well ...

... supporting a man who ou every really im- portant question acts against the old opinions of all the great Whig leaders in the old days, when the Whigs were a party to which I for one was proud to belong, and of which I wili not give up the. traditions because ...

... Brougham with the enthusiastic admiration that seemed naturally due from ayoung Whig to the most brilliant of Whig orators, the most energetic, intrepid, aud indefatigable of Whig statesmen ; and we should certainly do injustice to Macaulay if we doubted that ...

... imagination ! Mr. Jesse Collings must find consolation in that faculty for the scoffing of the Tories and the neglect of the Whigs. When they jeer at him in the home of metropolitan cynicism at Westminster— or, worse still, when they go out while he is speaking ...