... calculated on a good majority, having been promised all the votes of the Galway contractors, together with those of the moderate Whigs. Some- body, or rather some score of somebodies, must have re- pented in the eleventh hour, and hence the singular fact of ...

... 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 ...