... solicitous that his tenants should adopt all the modern practical inventions agricultural implements In politics he was a stanch Whig, aud at first, like many other persons having great landed interest, was opposed to the repeal of the com laws, and voted ...

... is a certaiu Mr. Leonard Edmunds, who was many years ago a clerk of Lord Brougham's, and by the friendship of that eminent Whig purist obtained a couple snug litt'e appointments—the Clerkship of Patents, and the Reading Clerkship to the House of Lords ...

... with Mr. Henry Berkeley; but the Conservatives are strong and sanguine also and there are those who say that if one ofthe Whigs is to go tothewall it will not be the Crimean baronet. Literary and Philosophical Association. The ninth paper of the session ...

... and such a clamour raised, that his appointment was cancelled. We shall now see how much more callous to popular opinion a Whig is when place is stake, The young Bethells are not all of. them, or report much maligns them, of very dignified behaviour. ...

... the Albany Chambers by the late Lord Macaulay (then the Right Hon. T. B. M.). I cannot leave the house, said the .great Whig statesman and historian he walked towards his window and looked out, so long as the wind is easterly. I dare not. I am quite ...

... flagrant kind are forthcoming against him, for Westbury a lawyer, and capable of making a grand defence of himself ; and is also Whig, so could not possibly forego the sweets of office unless absolutely forced his colleagues and public opinion to so. In a few ...