... that an eesaylat'bf no ordinary brilliancy had arisen to instructo and amuse the reading pubhlic. Ere long the leaders of the Whig party, ini recognition of his, intellectual superiority, aiiliointea Lord, then Mr. Macaulay, a conmirnsioner of bank. rpo;atin ...

... his essay on Lord Chatham If, rejecting all that is merely accidental, we occ look at the essential characteristics of the Whig Jol and the Tory, we may consider each of them as thce bet tepresentative of a great principle. essential to tie tell welfare ...

... weapons failed to reach. In his eary days.of Tory partisan- ship, the contribution of-poetical iatire'and epigram -to the New Whig Guide, Aizei-Jaeobin, and John Bull, ascribed. to his pen, weremarkedk by a stinging wit .and pungent humour not unworthy ...

... religion, and literature of , the country. In less than twenty-five years niggerisem has r- k doff two reat political parties-the Whigs and Know . Nothings-and it has divided and demoralised the democratic l .: party. So much for the politicians If we look it ...

... the Cabinet in their opposition to the temporal power of our Holy Father; because when one reflects on the con- duct of the Whig Governmont in the revolution of 1848, who, by means of our consul at Rome, the late notorious Mr. Freeborn, employed ' secret ...

... whetherlthere is in the whole half column spoken ; on the subject a single word that the 'mozt thorough-going Conseri ,jvative or Whig--of 'the :day might' not usd with the, dbsolutel certait ththecud wriggle out'-of it at any moment with the. greatest ease ...

... only delayed or thwarted by base, despicable, wicked England. a, The Pope's worst eneumies, cried the 'dTldet, are the to Whigs and Liberals at home. If the Emperor, echoed ,The O'Donohue, should waver in his fidelity to the - vicar of Christ-which ...

... harder to foist upon., Parliament the curious conglomeration-of hostil e senti. meats which we conceive a Whig Coalition Refori- Bill, must be. The Whigs f ear their c oming doom. They ' 'are not so much afraid of Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli i as of themselves ...

... hard done so much to carry it. For twenty years the authors-i mean the Parliamentary authors-of tltat bill, the leaders of the Whig party, eteadily refutsed to step One single hair's breadth in advance of it. They justified by their conduct that which it ...

... 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 ...

... anxious search of moor- ings better suited to the wants and tendencies of the age. This was particularly the case with the Whigs, towards whom Macaulay's early associations and liberal turn of mind caused him to gravitate,. The moral atmosphere of that ...

... hawcv Az stances; and notwithstanding that the chief attanco the Conservatives had been devoted to keepirg o:t i Whigs, and of the Whigs to displacing the tar etc yet it would not be fair to say that the session hah' without fruit. Several measures had ...