... student at Lincoln's-inn. His means were narrow, but a countryman, Serjeant Spankie, had the direction of the then ov-an of the Whigs—the Morning Chronicle-and by this influence he was enabled to earn a sufficient income to maintain him as a gallery reporter ...

... was, of course, like his father, a Tory; and in these days every election in the county of Flint was a [contest between the Whig Mostyns and the Tory Glyns. Mr. Glad- stone married a sister of the present' Sir Stephen Glyn, and, of course, helped him with ...

... made his great forensiC speech for the defendant in the celebrated case of N ortol1 v. Lord Melbourne. On the return of the Whig party t° office in June, 184G, after the resignation of the late Sir Robert Peel, Lord Campbell joined the Cabinet, and appointed ...