... career an essayist, in which he may be said to hold the highest rank in our English literature. In 1830, the attention of the Whigs having been for some time directed to him, entered parliament as member for Calue, and his splendid orations on behalf of the ...

... aside his volumes for more simple narrative ; and be will furnish an invaluable text-book of authority to the “ inheritors of Whig traditions, even when mankind at large .«> m! ,j prefer the more chequered lights of impartial history. As the first man of ...

... with the Liberals; and however Lord John Russell may change for the sake redressing himself in an empty popularity, the old Whigs of 1832 have nothing whatever in common with the democratic tendencies of modern Liberalism. Mr. Gladstone certainly not a ...

... have availed ourselves of a-notice which ap- peared in the Times, and we have little to add to it. Lord Macaulay was a pure Whig of the Fox and Russell school; and in those volumes of his history which have been given to the public he has shewn his party ...

... a change of ministers; Lord Derby gave way to Lord Palmerston, with a broad-bottomed following, for it included, with ell Whigs, the best remains of Peel and a few decided Radicals—indeed, one Quaker, a professor of lame principles, not in the Cabinet ...

... his essay on Milton, in the Edinburgh Review, drew upon him The leaders of the attention of the entire reading public. the Whig party, in acknowledgment of his literary superiority, app#inted Mr. Macaulay a Commissioner of in 1830 he entered Parliament ...

... waa ! provided, and, complete the tout ensemble, my father, who was determined Whig partisan, insisted on my j wearing yellow waistcoat and breeehea; yellow being the Whig colour, of which was admonished never to be ashamed. A more eertain mode of calling ...

... TlRisassal election which followed In, net disturb Mr. Macaulay fa the He was re-elected, and WO Wel ell& the return of the Whigs /15aeaulay resumed office in of the Forces, with • Se GSM ameba the duties of the Nei*w when be enespeetedly lost his seat ...

... alone in the Cabinet in opposition to the temporal power of the Holy Father ; because when one reflects on the conduct of the Whig Government of 1848, who, by means of our Consul at Rome, the late notorious Mr. Freeborn, employed secret service money to ...

... that the meibers of the Roman Catholic Church should feel themselves aggrieved by the morc than tacit sai ction given by the Whig goverument to the avowed designs entertained by the Emperor of the Frexcu against the temporal independe: ce of the Pope. With ...

... America, although certainly not all. His talents were so great, his writings so effective, and his influence so strong that the Whigs obtained for him (this, we suppose, must have been the Coalition Ministry) an appointment as Commissioner of Bankrupts, and ...

... asunder as the poles as to the particular bill that shall be brought forward, they are evidently quite determined that the Whig-Radical-Peelite Cabinet shall produce a measure of some kind, and that soon too. The Times of Wednesday very much mistaken ...