... 1837, being then 25 years of age, became a Queen's Counsel in 1849, and, as a Peclite, has been equally passed over by the Whigs and Darby Conservatives. As he is not only one of the first, if not the first man at the Equity bar, and was a enceessful speaker ...

... Cabinet naturally struggled to secure the promotion of their single follower in the kingdom of any mark or consideration, the Whigs and Radicals naturally felt and expressed their indignation at the unceremonious manner in which those learned gentlemen who ...

... already learnt that Mr. Roundell Palmer, the Solicitor-General of Lord Palmereton's Administration, is to be the nominee of the Whig Lord Zetlend for the borough of Richmond. His acceptance of office and of this seat clearly amounts to an abandonment of his ...

... else- where, seem to have given satisfaction to nobody. Here are the old names again. No amount of merit outside of the charmed Whig circle, with which Lord Palmerston surrounds himself, will help a man to high office. Some of the veterans are in failing health ...

... country, involved in Lord John Russell's translation, is the resignation of his reversionary claim to the leadership of the Whig party —a resignation that must, of course, be construed as mails favour of Mr. Gladstone. Lord Palmerston cannot in the nature ...