... 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 ...

... sae was the better so lan Up Istkb &et lee tint' f*. ebbed • oselificate of Re believed the wee Asmara bet personally he knew Whig shoat It. It was by Mr iseeselE He received from Moms Adam sad A the of March, a letter seadiag for revisal a draft of the ...

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

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... may be lost, I beg to say that I am wyeelf one of the unenfranchised, that I have no expectation of or pension either from Whig or Tory, or any other politi- cal class or party either in or out of power. In short, I have nothing but my own energies to ...

... have no doubt that it was the re-action from all this that made him • conventionalist in morals, an insolent and inconvistent Whig in politics, a shallow sad inaccurate historian, • post pouring oat all light end no warmth, and, for an able man, the moot ...

... tow, and brought her to Belfast. The rescued vessel, including cargo, is stated be worth between £40,000 and £50,000 Northern Whig ...

... indeed, be considerable risk that the Conservatives might lose [their own position > while attempting to take that of the Whigs, but the ' supposition is not so improbable that it should not be , reckoned upon by the Cabinet in framing their Bill. If ...

... anecdotical scraps: A story goes that a proprietor who made his money in the chiua and delft line, sent letter to a great Whig baronet in these terms: —* Sir, If your piggs (sic) are not kept off my ground will shoot them.' The answer was, ' 1 will comply ...

... Parliamentary struggle is greater than It was fire months ago. The hostility of the Edinburgh clique, who, whether Tory or Whig, assume to dispose of all Scottish matters, is just what it was and no wore. It is to be presumed that the members of the present ...