... Ministry routed. Pungent were the thrusts levelled at the Whig Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, represented as pitiably sitting on a bottomless money-box fishing for a budget ! Then came the election—Whig de- feat and Conservative triamph, succeeded by a ** ...

... will range at a higher level during the next twelve months than we have seen during the last quarter of acentury.—Northern Whig. ...

... Cockburn. It was the last judicial act which he performed. The last, or nearly the last, survivor of the brilliant group of Whig barristers, who so signally adorned the legal profession, and the political history of Scotland —the sharer of the friendship ...

... its draughts.—As each housewife hath her jams, so each railway train hath its callisions.—As Lord John Russell is himself a Whig, 8o is his eldest son bis heir.—As most twurderers, when tried, pursue some line of defence, so do they oftimes & GOLDEN RULES ...