... made his great forensic speech for the defendant in the celebrated case of Norton v. Lord Melbourne. On the return of the Whig party to office in June, 1846, after the resignation of the late Sir Robert Peel, Lord Campbell joined the Cabinet, and was ...

... 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 ...

... and on account of his enlarged views and acknowledged abilities, and the support he had long and consistently given to the Whigs, he was invited by Earl Grey in 1830, when he received the royal commands to form an adminis- tration, to become a member of ...