... caused by his own inadvertence crossing the line of fire, when the troops were practising with the rifle at long range. The last Whig job, the elevation of the Bishop of Carlisle, (brother of the Earl of Clarendon) to the lucrative Bishopric of Durham, has ...

... made an Irish Peer by the Whig Government of which Lord Palmerston was the head, and it was, of course, ungrateful in him to attack his old friend and patron; but gratitude is not an abiding sentiment in the human mind, and Whig gratitude is generally admitted ...

... raised that early next Session a bill would be brought in on the subject. The House laughed, of course, at this genuine Whig stereotyped promise; which has been made so often that no one believes in it. Sir Jame9 Elphinston, who is an old sailor and ...