... the Duke of Buckingham's 'Court and Cabinets of George the Third and George the Fourth,' of Lord Holland's ' Memoirs of the Whig Party,' of the ' Cornwallis Correspondence,' and of the 'Corre- spondence, Despatches and other Papers of Viscount Castlereagh ...

... though there was no moon. Both parties turned it on their enelnies. The Whigs said it was God's judgment on the horrid rebellion, and the Tories said that it came for the Whigs taking off the two Lords that - were executed. I could hardly make ray chairmen ...

... used and well enjoyed. Mr O'Dowd writes on his title-page,- I care not a fig For Tory or Whig, But sit in a bowl and kick round me. But he likes hitting a Whig better than he likes hitting a Tory, and he has his individualities of opinion that save him ...

... was one of the cleverest advertise- ments we remember. The zamiae- is quite welcome to be as servile as it pleases-and few Whig-Radical papers can surpass it in servility. But when it' deviates into abuse and hazards false statements it must expect! condiga ...

... years' leisure in the life of one of our foremost statesmen. Lord Derby's English 'Iliad ' is one of the good things we owe to a Whig Government; for had the Tories heent in office the noble translator would hardly have had leisure enough for its production ...

... afterwards, on occa- sion of Sterne's ordination and his preferment to Sutton Vicarage in 1738, it is said that the sound Whig arch- deacon had obtained it for his nephew. Jaques Sterne was not, to be sure, an archdeacon till eight years later, but ...

... that some are very wise, And some are very funny, And some grow rich by telling lies, And some by telling money. I think the Whigs are wicked knaves, And very like the Tories, Who doubt that Britain rules theawaves, And ask the price of glories; I think ...

... whose mouth, when he speaks, drop title-pages, instead of the toads or diamonds, as the case may be, of the little Tory and Whig in the fairy tale. Captain Speke's volume left much to be written by any companion who had a sharper faculty of observation ...

... There was a feeling amongst a few that a penny weekly sheet would be below the dignity of the Society. One gentleman of the old Whig school, who had not. originally belonged to the Committee, said again and again, It is very awkward. Lord Brougham, however ...