... attempt to ponrtray the character and genius of Lord Cockburn. ,The last, or nearly the last, survivor of that brilliant group of Whig barristers, who so signally adorned the legal profession, and tice political history of Scotland,- tile shalrer of the fiarendship ...

... twelve years, five years of that period, or from JJuly 1841, when tile Mel- bournie Government resigned, to July 1846, when ?? Whigs again came in under Lord Jolhn Russell, being passed out of offite. That reserve which had marked hlis D early career-a perhaps ...