... that an essayist of no ordinary brilliancy had arisen to instruct and amuse the reading public. Ere long the leaders of the Whig party, in recognition of his intellectual superiority, appointed Lord, then Mr. Macaulay, a Commissioner of Bankruptcy; and ...

... criticised in the House of Commons; and there is no reason to suppose that the same want of consideration on the part of the Whigs will meet with a different fate. If, indeed, it is intended that there shall be no Reform Bill at all, they will then be exposed ...

... of the pieces of wreck from the princely estate which Mr. Hudson had built up for himself in the day of his prosperity—the Whigs, to whom he had always been a devoted adherent, raised him to the peerage under the title of that estate. He is succeeded by ...

... Denison, who bequeathed to him the bulk of his immense wealth. In politics Lord Londesborongh was a etauch supporter of the Whig party. He is succeeded in his title and extensive landed property by his eldest son by his first marriage, the Hon. William ...

... Washington Irving, and Mrs. Somerville. No Tory exclusiveness here. Byron, Moore, Campbell, were Liberals; Hallam was a Whig of the Whigs; Washington Irving a Republican. Irving, by the way, was originally one of John Murray's chief misses; but how amply ...

... peculiarity about it, that exactly the same corruption, and transacted apparently by the same men, took place in favour of the Whig candidates in 1857. The truth appears to be that there are certain parties in Dover who regard the place as a Government seat ...

... Memorial. . -- - It is reported that France has purchased the principality of Monaco for an annuity of 200,000 f. The Northern Whig states that one day last week Mr. Gladstone withdrew his name from the Carlton Club. Dr. Livingston has communicated to the ...

... Mr. M'Cormick, an eminent railway contractor, and a moderate Conservative. The other candidates were Mr. Skipton, moderate Whig, and Mr. Greer, ultra-Liberal. The following were the gross numbers at the close of the poll: M'Cormick, 326; Greer, 307; Skipton ...

... make this meeting the theatre of the battle between Whigs and Independent Liberals—(hisses and cheers)--between the Parliament House and the citizens, and to make a comparison between the old Whigs and the new—to make a divis:on, so far as words of his ...

... thrusts at the Government were perhaps made by Mr. Ellice, gen. That gentlemen has long held a high place in the councils of the Whig party. It was strange to hear him talking in such fashion as to elicit repeated bursts of applause from the Opposition benches ...

... distinguished as the mover of the resolutions upon the Irish Church, which in 1834 led to the seceesi9n of a portion of the Whig Ministry. Sir H. Ward was Secretary to the Admiralty in Lord John Rassell's Government from 1846 to 1849, in which latter year ...

... would be found, we opine, that the expectancy of life, to use the actuary's phrase, on the part of any Cabinet—Conservative, Whig, or Coalition —is diminished far more by some sudden and unexpected blow than by gradual decay. We shall attempt no prophecies ...