... ceased to exercise any proper influence in the different State departments over which members of Government preside. Under Whig and Tory sovereignty, it has been just the same during the last twenty years. This great port has been officially looked upon ...

... the most ample development while some noble ladies of Liberal politics were very little, and sundry aristocratic matrons of Whig tendencies, endeavouring, in virtue of their natural instincts, to steer a middle course between the two, were neither one ...