... This eccentric nomination affords another illustration of the flagrant, if not indecent, disregard to public feeling exhibited Whig Administrations in the distribution of their patronage. In makinothe honorable Member for Eeading a Baron of the Exchequer ...

... Solicitor-General on the return of Lord Palmerston office in July, 1859. Inevitably Sir Henry Keating, by the good pleasure of the Whigs, was afterwards made puisne judge in the Court Common Pleas. Then came another conflict, and Sir Francis Goldsmid was returned ...