... ways were betrayed by his disposition to make ± sarcastic remarks on leading characters of the day, sparin neither tory nor whig. Yet his was ever n playful kind of sareasmn, entirely free from any bitter alloy o misanthropyand. rancour. To such feelings ...

... eloquence in the writings that bear his name, not to seem to us in the main trust- worthy. He was a talking vain man, says the Whig bishop, who bad long been in the king's favour, and had such an opinion of his own faculty of persuading, that he thought ...

... things, he ought to avoid attaching himself to a system apart from whi;cl lie can see nothing but misfortusie and ruin. Hey be Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, provided tsheS, When circumetance demand it, he make Iis private opinions give Vito the general ...

... great difficulty I got through it in two days. It is on the story of Lord Russel. John Lilburne himself could not have more whig-zeal. The style extremely deficient in grammar is flogged up to more extravagant rants than Statius's or Claudian's, with a ...

... as willing to admit us .to their most private and delightful confidences. The leaders and many distinguished members of the Whig party ,have presented Mr Tufell, M.P. for Devonport, and formerly Secre- tary of the Treasury, with a splendid candelabrum ...

... suspicion. We think it also an admirable touch where Fallen (who has descended in his miseries to be the paid agent of both Whig and Jaco- bite) is made to excuse his time-serving by his love to his children ; for that shows the susceptibility to the household ...

... laudatory article on the Exhibition' and 'is originator ; and con- cludes with a more natural and truthful vondemnation of the Whigs as a body. .AnEesay on' Pigs' and Pig: Worship is most abominable trash, and nothing but a positve dearth of better matter ...

... informa- tion which is gathered at the centre of affairs, not at the. extremities. Mr. Baines remained in parliament till the whigs were ousted in 1841, when, to all appearances, a tory reaction had set in, which he felt that it required you th to combat ...

... much gratitude. your very faithful friend and servant,-AstnLEv Captain Scobell, ?? has offered himaself a candidate on the Whig interest. ...

... DurTIs._It appears that the amount paid upon goods in bond in Belfast in one week is 5,7621. 16s. 2d. This, the ' Northern Whig ' remarks, is by no' means the largest amount of duty paid on goods in bond in a week; but, assuming it to be a far weekly ...

... It is quite unexampled at the present day that men of such sagacity and such firmness should be employed by either party, Whig or Tory. We need care little for speeches. icholas. Perhaps so. But sometimes a red-hot word, falling upon soft tinder and ...

... Reform Bill, indignantly denouncing toryism t and its obsolete insane pretensions; and then if, after some t experience of whig management, he discerned that Wel- l, lington and Peel, by whatever name entitled, were the } men to be depended on by Eng ...