... limited evil, indefinite of mischief, The news from the Crimea would have been fatal to the Govera- ment even if the ancient Whig to anticipate the fall of his i reg ston succeeded to the head of affairs at the beginning of 1855, when the crisis was alread: ...

... divided'the most ni'stouiosn'd,powverFuflyxe- Iligious-se'ctsin thea codaryj the Biptihsats-d' the-Mstihodista, 'killed bgtjie Whig said Know-Nothillpdrtiea, 'nd'created tw~o distinct faction inhe'dem~ocrati6 pai'ty'. 'Ti-thepulpit it has'made. tertain reputation ...

... already known him to possess.' E His talents were so great, his writings so effective, and his influence so strong that the Whigs obtained for him (this, X w -we suppose, must have been in the Coalition Ministry) an J appointment as Commissioner of Bankrupts ...

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

... se allow; and the sky is already darkened ie forecasts of a struggle for political supreetween the almost evenly balanced Whig- I and Conservative sections. Parliamentary o is to be the battle-ground; and it is quite ; that sweeping changes in the system ...

... 1830 will not forget the dashing, flashing, florid the name of essay upoD There came soon Macaulay into fame by a flourish of Whig trumpets. Atlantic a far finer upon the same theme from the comparison of these essays must still made by every student as ...

... have no doubt that it was the reaction from all this that made him a conventionalist in morals, an insolent and inconsistent Whig in politics,, a shallow and inaccurate historian, a poet pouring out all light and no warmth, and, for an able man, the most ...

... better than those outside ? He sets aside the Whig traditional principle in favour of inequality of the borough and county franchises, because we are new going to legislate for the people not for the - Whigs, on the more rational and modern principle of ...

... weapons failed to reach. In his eary days.of Tory partisan- ship, the contribution of-poetical iatire'and epigram -to the New Whig Guide, Aizei-Jaeobin, and John Bull, ascribed. to his pen, weremarkedk by a stinging wit .and pungent humour not unworthy ...

... cannot but see that there were fault' of conduct on both sides, and that the ardent, but often not well-timed efforts of the Whigs to bring about organic reforms, were met by an ill-judged and harsh severity on the part of the then overbearing and narrow-minded ...

... emilielli as wale ems glonskesh ' theitlng has cm Ms do atoms twonnthil bur desisk. . liddie, maid she, ha when lbe ia wiper. Whig Am we septet of oleo ia cirmurtneese idle the. midi Via addresses MI a kr the gimle t would tkomirla ma& misery, aell a great ...

... boldly fought in the van ol all the great political struggles identified with Whig policy down to his latest appearance in Parliament. As trusty colleague of the leaders of the Whig parfy- Macaulay has done much to win fur his friends the undeviatiog course ...