... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...