... success, and of that of a still greater man before him, Sir Robert Walpole, who kept the Hanover family on the throne and the Whigs in office for many years. HIS ORATORY. A thing very remarkable in the House of Commons is the decline of oratory. It is common ...

... money. He was then about forty-four years of age, with a strong taste for applause, patronage, and public life. His wealthl-and Whig connections made him a peer, and he earned his honours, for he patronised everything, subscribed to 'everything, and became ...

... voice for the peers. His peerage is curious and unusual. His father was Sir John Campbell, and Attorney- General under the Whigs at a time when it was inconvenient to make him chancellor and raise him to the peerage, although his claims to that promotion ...

... success at the bar of Springfield. In politics, to which, whilst following his profession, he paid great attention, he joined the Whig party, and was a warm sup- porter of Henry Clay. In 1846 he was elected to Congress, and continued to belong to it till 1849 ...

... a certain stage of his oratory at which his friends whispered, now for the bullet. In politics lie was originclly an old Whig, and took office under Earl Grey, in the first lieiorm ministry, as postmaster-general, but soon after the breaking up of that ...

... Wales, which had become a serious taxation on the agricultural classes. In political opinions, his lordship was originally a Whig about twenty years ago, however, when the zealots of change appeared to be pushing opinions to doubtful practical results, ...

... but the minority would have been reduced by Conservative timidity at the noise of out-of-door agita- tion. The Whig conspirators, and Whig-Radical impos tors to whom it chiefly owes its death, could not have hated it worse if it had been twice its size ...

... a very respectable lawyer, who had been President of the Poor Law Board, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under the Whig Governments. He was a contemporary of Macaulay at Cambridge, and took a respectable degree, but owed his position rather to ...

... proper time arrives the novel spectacle will be presented of a complete union between Ultramontane Roman Catholics, Moderate Whigs, and Tories of the old orthodox stamp. ...

... growers of southern Europe that we really mean free trade; and we have put law reform in such a shape that party opposition—Whig or Tory-is, in future, impossible. The correspondence between the Queen and the President of the United States will be quoted ...

... brother, George IV., made him for a short time Lord High Admiral. But some of the same sort of influence that made that devoted Whig, experienced turfite, and aristocratic leg, General Anson who had never served with any regiment since, as a sub- altern, he ...

... of manufactures. These hits told; but the feeling of the House, nevertheless, was that henceforth Mr. Horsman was a fallen (Whig) angel—the doors of the Paradise DfD evening-street closed to him for ever. The Conservatives don't want any one to share their ...