... bis essay on Milton, in tbs Edinbwgh Review, drew upon him the attention of the entire reading public. The leaders of the Whig parly, in acknowledgment of bis literary superiority, appointed Mr. Macaulay Commissioner of Bankruptcy, and in 1830 be entered ...

... pretty much, the same may, we fear, be averred of the whole of the small and exclusive band of privileged placemen, whether Whig or Tory, who, by turns, monopolize the government of the country. In times long gone by, ere the schoolmaster had taken active ...

... 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 ...

... tub fire and fury ! , literary connection with the greet Whig organ, and one of the finest works in the language, a noble here an insult A challenge was given on the' his brilliant advocacy of Whig principle-, soon et- monument to the dead author. spot ...

... knowledge, and the promotion the arts and sciences.” The rather sudden death of Lord Macaulay reminds us how fast the great Whig statesmen of the Reform Bill era are passing away. Of the original Edinburgh reviewers, we believe only one, the veteran Lord ...

... we have no doubt that it was the reaction £rom all this that made him a conventionalist in morals, 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 ...

... STATESMEN; SKETCHES FISI THE STRANGERS GALLERY OF THE NMI IF CONON& VISCOUNT PALMEILSTON. Fogs Arty jean aims, Dean %leer, writiog Whig fennel Wilberforee, kre..Ls of having beeasolieitod furhis wasteful interest for the tiuivev.ity of Cambridge by a young Irish ...

... resignation of the Secretaryship at Wcr by Mr. Canning, Lord Palmerston Limb the vaciut plcee, 2nd filled it 1828. When the Whigs mine Into power, lord Palmerston become Secretary of State f u Foreign Affairs, and represented South Ihnts, and ultimately ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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

... purposes. Hitherto, the Daily Papers of Liverpool have, one and all, been exclusively in the so-called Liberal, that is, the Whig and Radical, interest. The Conservative cause has now got its representative, and its advocate, in the local Daily Press. It ...