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

... him the character acquired by his speeches and essays, of brilliant rhetorician, equalled by lew ancient modern times. The Whigs used and admired him, hut never gave him high office, hut as they have sometimes given a share of power to men of inferior ...

... poor-law 3 to the existing representative system. This I would say—the poor-laws are maintained by both political parties—by both Whigs and Tories. These are maintained by the electors, raised, ordinarily, little beyond the sphere of want, and they, the multitude ...

... acts of unselfishness, which seem almost ideal in their greatness, so frequently come out the history everyday life.—Northern Whig. THE POPE AND PIG. when, mid cots of rustic swains, With piercing and discordant cry, Resound the distant hills and plains ...

... maintained that the property qualifications ought to be manhood qualification, because man himself was man's noblest property. The Whigs said that the representation should he based upon hut he believed that no more good could come out of the Nazareth of than ...

... been murdered. The letter adds that four persons have been arrested on suspicion. Irish National Education.—The Northern Daily Whig reports aEgreat length the proceedings a great demonstration on behalf of the present system of Irish National Education, which ...

... volunteer movement, which he held was wanted to place this country in a state of complete defence. He did not-think that the Whigs would exhaust their whole stock-in-trade, by making the Reform Bill complete as it should be, but would be inclined to leave ...

... sympathies.hated of Orangemen, and ready to affront intolerance and bigotry the cause of religious liberty. He owes more to the Whigs than any public man living. They backed him his political blunders, and bolstered his private fortune bv the best firings their ...

... and that was beyond denial. The ablest critics of the budget were undoubtedly Sir Francis and Mr Thomas Baring—the former a Whig Ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, the latter the trusted adviser of the Conservatives commercial matters— and yet, apart from ...

... between two and three on the afternoon of the polling, and asked whether he had polled— Ay, he said, there's nobody like the Whigs for money, for he had got £10 and watch. He would never have turned his coat but for that, and Maijoribanks was the man for ...

... William (our Princess Royal) expects increase of family two or three months. Gladstone and the Carlton Club.—The Northern Whig learns from a private source of information, on which it can place every reliance, that, on Wednesday week, Mr Gladstone withdrew ...

... He professes to be a moderate conservative The_other candidates were Mr Skipton, moderate whig, and Mr Greer, ultra liberal, a radical from the start. The whig nowhere the poll, and thenceforward was a gallant race between Messrs M'Cormick and Greer, ...