... further progress in the same direction. His speech furnishes another illustration of SYDNEY SMITin'S pungent witticism-that the Whigs are the only people who build stone walls for 'the mere purpose of- rumning their heads against them. However greatly we may ...

... Commissioners when the Poor Law Board was broken up, but having married a sister of Lord Clarendon he was taken up by the Whigs and brought into Parliament. His promotion under such influential auspices was unusually rapid. He became Secretary to the ...