... from the banquet hall to the great' Hall of Judgment, *as one of the shining lilhts and mfain stays of, the now almost effete Whig party. Like many other men of celebiity, it was his failure as a newspa. per man that opened the gates of success to him as ...

... together with an ambition for distinction at the English bar which about this time powerfully affected the young Scottish Whigs. It is not difficult to imagine this ungainly Suotch lad, with his broad Fifeshire dialect, making his way through London, ...

... judge acatued by purer motives in the distribution of. the professio'al patronage that fell to his share. Scotohman and staunoh Whig, as he was, I do not-balieve the claims of' country or patty: ever entered with him into comrpetition' .wth. those founded ...

... made his grentforenic speeeh for the defeniadnt in the celebrated ease of ' Norton a. Lard Melbourne. On the return of the Whig party to office, in June, 1846, after the resignation of the late Sit Robert Peel, Lord Campbell jolned the eabinet.and was ...

... together with an am. bition for distinction At the English bar which About this time poweifully affected the young Scottish Whigs. And among a, crowd of eager competitors we note two in paiticular who preferred the bar of Westminster to that of Ldinbus ...

... nor even the use of common eyes. His next promotion was not effected under kindly and graceful influences. Just before the Whig Government went out in 1841, and when the event was clearly foreseen by everybody, while struggled against by the holders of ...

... he made his great forensic speech for the defendant in the celebrated case of Norton v. Lord Melboulne. On the return of the whig party to office, in June, 1846, afterthe resignation of the late Sir Robert Peel, Lord Campbell joined the cabinet, and swas ...

... m * lYZ E gaOILTURING 0W SOLDZI S. The Irish papers repbrt several recent cases of flogging in the Irish army. The Northemn Whig says that on Saturday morning week,at thilf-pat fiveo'olock, aprivate of the 62ad Regiment, in the local depot, was subjected ...

... contemporaries is the disappearance of another illustrious namefrom the roll of Whig nobility,-a name that carries back the memory to those palmy days of party politics when Whigs and Tories only contended for political ascendancy, when country gentle ...

... EARL FoRTESCcuz, K.s., died on Saturday, in his seventy-ninth year. lie bad for many years been a zealous supporter of the Whig party, and had done good service to his political friends during his long career in the House of Commons, more especially during ...

... mi the Irish peerage, 6 ana father of the Right po. George Poasonby, who was Lord High Chancellor of Ireland during I the Whig admtinistration of 1806-7. The first b peer; dying shortly after succeeding to the title,E CvA3 succeeded by his eldest son ...

... to exercise their best judgment, and vote for measures irrespective of whether such measures were brought forward by tory or whig. (Hear, hear.) On other occasions they had shown u liberality their a well-known tact tha* period th* eci'vatives held supremacy ...