... in 182 d, his essay on Milton, in the Edinburgh drew upon him the attention of the entire reading public. The leaders of the Whig party, in acknowledgment of his literary superiority, appointed Mr. Macaulay a Commissioner Bankruptcy, and iu 18.10 h« ontored ...

... grounds where Addison, Charles James Eox, Eurke, Sheridan, Horner and Mackintosh, Rogers and Sydney Smith, Tom Moore, and every Whig celebrity between the times of Fox and Lord Melbourne, walked and talked, may be cut up into squares and terraces. If true ...

... resignation of ihe Secretary ship at War by Mr. Canning, Lord Palmerston took the vacant place, and tilled it until 1828. When the Whigs came into power, Lord Palmerston became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and represented South Hants, and ultimately ...

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

... success, and of that of a still greater man before him, Sir Robert Walpole, who kept the Hanover family the throne and the Whigs in office for many years. HIS ORATORY. A tiling v«ry rnmarkalde in the IX'Usa of Commona ia the decline of oratory. It is common ...

... fought a duel with the captain, obtained a I divorce in the House of Lords, but never married again. The Astleys are a very old Whig family in Norfolk. The title dates back to 1289, and, in 1841, the late peer succeeded in proving his right to be summoned ...

... Grey and Lord John Russell and Refoim. little -while the leadership ot the Whigs was placed m Lord John Russell's hands, and hard time it he had. ihe reaction came, and the Whigs were ; Lord Stanley had forsaken them, Sit James Graham had done the tame ...

... brother, George IV., made him for a short time Lord High Admiral. But some of the same sort of influence that made that devoted Whig, experienced turfite and aristocratic leg, General Anson—who had I never served with any regiment since, a subaltern, he assisted ...

... and with one of those fresh, ruddy, whiskerloss faces which make even old man look young. It was clear that he was a good Whig, and of old family, otherwise Lord John would have been a little less trieudly. It was also clear that he was in office, or ...

... money. Ho was then about forty-four years of age, with a strong taste for applause, patronage, and public life. His wealth and Whig connections made him a peer, and he earned his honours, for he patronised everything, subscribed to everything, and became ...

... Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under the Whig Governments. He was a contemporary of Macaulay at Cambridge, and took a respectable degree, but owed his position rather to his lather’s reputation, as founder of the Mercury, than ids political talents ...

... favoured friends across the Channel ! We are as much interested in the extension of Commerce, and as favourable to it, as the Whig Ministers, but we are hostile to all dishonest means for its accomplishment. Redeem your exchequer bonds, get over your deficit ...