... 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 ...

... together with an ambition for distinction at the English bar which about this time powerfully affected the young Scottish Whigs. Erskine, Who had studied at Campbell's own college, and who, indeed, was a school and class fellow of Campbell's father, was ...

... 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 ...