... indicated that an essayist of ordinary brilliancy had arisen instruct and amuse the reading public. Ere long the leaders of the Whig parly, in recognition of his intellectual superiority, appointed Lord (then Mr.) Macaulay a Commissioner of Bankruptcy ; and ...

... before the Whigs, who were content to borrow from him those principles which they employed with success against his less able successors. The principle of removing all unnecessary letters upon trade was likewise this, sixty years before the Whigs ever thought ...

... coolly argue that to pass one-half of a Reform Bill during the present session would enough by way of redeeming the pledge the Whigs when they were seeking power and that the necessity of carrying the other half in another session would be a sufficient pretence ...

... tlr« Libera) party. It is said that op|>oriuoiticB will taken at the:. reunions to soothe the amour propre of more than one Whig magnate, who fancied was indispensable Lor Palmerston’s Cabinet; but course one distinguished statesman his been more alluded ...

... have won by the most destructive war. The Morning Herald the Prospect of the Present Ministry There reason to believe that the Whig Government are considerable difficulties about their Christmas bills, and that their creditors, the British public, must expect ...

... income-tax for years, and it may permanently. It is not pleasant to discover why this necessary. Forty millions have been spent by Whig Administrations transforming our fleet within the last few years, yet, until lately, had wonderfully little to show for our ...

... and when he declared that the Pope had many enemies in every class of society, among the Liberals and Conserva“tives, the Whigs and Tories, he never thought that that must indeed be bad which every par ty is unanimous in condemning. One valuable hint ...

... friends of order and established government, we shall be happy to find them so. But we leave Lichfieldhouse Compacts to the Whigs. —The Press. ...

... alluded to union of the scion of a Conservative house (not far from Kuowsley) with the daughter of a Whig house. This will stem like a family tie between Whigs but happily the day is passed by when politics are carried to extremes which create bonds or feuds ...

... as he called, a man well known, here as a leading Whig—a great light in the Lansdowne House and Chesham-place coterie, and very useful as link between ordinary mortals and the ducal dignities of the Whig clique. His social position is, moreover, very high ...

... which a bishop hostile to the System has ever bestowed the smallest preferment a supporter of it; and I may add, that, while Whig Lord Lieutenants have not unfrequently conferred bishoprics and other preferments opponents to the System, the c ises are rare ...

... But if the traditionary polity of the Whigs hostility to the Papacy, why is it that, on every occasion in which popular rights, as they arc called, come before the House, the Papal party side uniformly with the Whigs? •If the question be the extension of ...