... ordinary person. Macaulay entered Parliament in 1830 as member for the borough of Caine, and soon distinguished himself on the Whig side of the House as an able and eloquent debater. He held, under Lord Grey’s Government, the office of Secretary to the Board ...

... have sought so long to accomplish. Fox left us a torso, Mackintosh a leg and arm, Macaulay an unfinished head. Those three Whig historians never weighed and balanced what they were about like Hume and Gibbon. And why ? They were too discursive ; they ...

... disappearance of the darkies to the ravages of that dreadful disease. Protestant Demonstration at Belfast.—The Northern Daily Whig reports at great length the proceedings of a great demonstration on behalf of the present system of Irish national education ...

... He also patronised the turf, and had a princely racing stud. In politics his Lordship was a stanch and able supporter of the Whig party. His demise is very generally and deeply lamented. The funeral of Lord Londesborough took place on Tuesday week in a ...

... after five o’clock since, he has probably been cramming three weeks’ preparation into one. Mr. Bouverie is one of the perpetual Whig office-bearers who has been crowded out the present Ministerial programme in consequence of the coalition arrangements. There ...

... the right side (in more senses than one) of the Speaker’s chair, that we have learnt that liberalism is a cold word with the Whigs, an abstract passion with the Radicals, but a practical fact with the Conservatives. Practical, we have been given to understand ...

... of Ministerial jobbing or the recklessness of any one party which has held power in the State. It has been the work alike of Whig, Tory, and Radical in office; it has arisen out of the necessity of the case; and, above all, it has been demanded by the ...

... the Budget which was indorsed by several supporters of the Government, and especially by the chartered mouth piece of the Whigs, as they at present exist pure and simple, in the form of Lord Harry Vane. It was who unconsciously led Mr. Disraeli into the ...

... is more sympathy with the people in the sense of the working classes among the Tories proper than really exists among the Whigs and so-called Liberals of a still more advanced school; for find the wrongs of the private soldier most unhesitatingly 'dealt ...

... Lieutenant of the county of Londonderry, and was M.P. for the city of Londonderry since 1830. He was in politics a moderate Whig. Sir Robert, who never married, died in Dublin, on the 13th inst., and, as he leaves sisters only, the baronetcy becomes extinct ...

... natural to him, beseems to have aiquired concentration identical with Mr. Horsman’s acerbity. Their position as members of the Whig party unattached, probably because of their impracticability, adds to the likeness in their situations and mode of debating ...

... Pulley, and in the meantime an application for permission to exhume the body has been forwarded the Home Secretary. Northern Whig gives a series of tables to show that, in Belfast, drunkenness was actually more rampant in that town and neighbourhood during ...