... in consideration of the influences which were 'necessarily present during an eventful political career. Lord Macaulay was a Whig of the old school, and, although he advocated the cause of reform up to a certain point, he failed, with all his eloquence ...

... we have no doubt that was the reaction from all this that made him conventionalist in morals, an insolent and inconsistent Whig in politics, shallow and inaccurate historian, a poet pouring out of all light and no warmth, and, for an able man, the most ...

... in whieb, while disclaiming ntention of talking party polities, he referred to the prominen t facts in the history of the Whig rarty, as showing that no man nec 1 be ashamed of i tifying himself with that party. He then, for the purpose of showing that ...

... renown of the Whig Quar- terly. Nor was the anticipation disappointed, as all who have read the essays, historical, political, poeti cal, and critical, must be aware. This connection with the Edinburgh identified him also with the Whigs, and that party ...

... was provided, and, to complete the tout ensemble, my father, who was a determined Whig partisan, insisted on my wearing yellow waistcoat and breeches; yellow being the Whig colour, of which I was admonished never to be ashamed. A more certain mode of calling ...

... so did Follett; and Jeffrey (though decried at the time), was more successful than either. It to the credit of the leading Whigs that they soon discovered and appreciated the talents of Macaulay. Lord Lansdowne brought him into Parliament as member for ...

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

... volanteer paid it expense, and, as the Irishman said, he would 3 such them for thet, you for nothing.’ (L ut bed end app'sase) The Whig Government, uode or Lord John Russell, did little ble, by » have They hed supplied rifes, but left the t re was and clothe ...

... especially lamented, was clerk in the oflee of MrS. W. Knox, solicitor, and enjoyed the respect of all who knew him.—Northern Daily Whig. ...

... better than those outside ? He sets aside the Whig traditional principle in favour of inequality of the borough and county franchises, because we are new going to legislate for the people not for the - Whigs, on the more rational and modern principle of ...

... workmen, were drowned in the Mersey, On Friday, by the Opseting of a boat, coming ashore from an emigrant ship. The B ilfast Whig remarks that the commercial capital of Ireland was conspicuous for drunkenness Of the most flagrant description on Sunday and ...

... The fact of the appearance of his contribution in that magazine was at once notification that he had cast in his lot with the Whig party. Like many other reformers, he first entered Parliament as member for a rotten borough—Calne—the property of the Marquis ...