... absolves or consigns to perdition the illustrious of the earth, just as their creed agrees with or differs from his own. The Whigs are his only faithful Levites, and his his- tory may be termed an unfinished pamphlet for the glorification of Whiggery. They ...

... matured style is so renearible, and with which his essays in the Edinburgh Review first made file countrymen acquainted. The Whig Government not slow to perceive the moral and intellectual power of the young Reviewer, and conferred on him a commissionership ...

... on Lord Chatham, which np peared October, 1844, and was, every respect, worthy of closing so splendid a series. When, in the Whig party, under the leadership of Lord J. Russell, was restored to power, Mr Macaulay was appointed Paymaster of the Forces, with ...

... absence; and when j battle was fought in Macaulay retarned, the Whigs had fallen jato the error which bas been their ruin all synony- along, of assuming that progress is what- mons with a Whig Ministry in power, ever the. measores may de that that Ministry ...

... in 1826, his essay Milton, in the Edinburgh Itevieu-, drew him the attention the entire reading public. The leaders of the Whig party, in acknowledgment his literary superiority, appointed Mr Maetulay a Oomniiss : oner Bankruptcy, and in 1830 entered ...

... member. for Edinburgh in 1839, and became Secretary at War in the same year. Mr Macaulay did not remain long in office, for the Whigs were soon ousted by Sir R. Peel. In opposition Mr Macaulay's voice was not often heard, but on one occasion he expressed himself ...

... se allow; and the sky is already darkened ie forecasts of a struggle for political supreetween the almost evenly balanced Whig- I and Conservative sections. Parliamentary o is to be the battle-ground; and it is quite ; that sweeping changes in the system ...

... ective politicia as of the present. day be seems uot OQ BOM: an .old world Whe Parliament whan Lord: Grey Was wear bie and ‘the: Whig party; after ite long fom about to enjy the fruits of esesess. George TV., who bad. beeome from. the first geatlemsn the most ...

... of ordinary brilliancy had arisen to instruct and amuse the reading public. PARLIAMENTARY LIFE. Ere long the leaders of the Whig party, in recognition of his intellectual superiority, appointed Mr Macaulay a Dekiivite Paper in Edikbcroh-Dinnkr to Conimissijner ...

... ind'uated that .an essayist of ordii brilliancy i./j arisen to instruct and nninse the reading public. r , long Jie leaders of the Whig party, in rec»g.iiii his intellectual superiority, appointed Mr Al.iciul.iy commissioner and 1830 they for him to House of ...

... half-hearted Whig support to the popular cause, and the popu- lar triumph in spite of all difficulties. These struggles are to many as occurrences of the other day; to Apore they are matters of history. Macaulay is a young Whig to the former; an old Whig to the ...

... has divided the most numerous and powerful religious seels in the country, the Baptists ami the Methodists; killed off the Whig and Know Nothing parties, and created two distinct factious in the democratic party. In the pulpit it has made certain reputation ...