... already known him to possess.’ His talents were ao great, his writings so effective, and his influence so strong that the Whigs obtained for him (this, we suppose, must have been the Coalition Ministry) an appointment as Commissioner of Bankrupts, and ...

... member for Edinburgh iu 1836, and became Secretary War in the same year. Mr. Macaulay did not long remain office, for the Whigs wore soon ousted by Sir Robert Peel. Iu opposition Mr. Macaulay's voice was not often heard, but on one occasion expressed ...

... Milner Gibson, the friend and fellow politician of Bright. Possibly the old game of delay, that so often before befriended the Whig government, may be once more tried. Indeed, already hear of many pressing questions that must take priority of Reform in the ...

... tendency, delivered with ultramontane fury, and garnished with much- vituperative*ess on English Ministers past and present—Whig and Tory alike. But these things we pass bv, and halt only to examine into more recent explosions. These take the shape of ...