... caught on a visit of charity which he made to his gamekeeper, who was lying sick of the fatal disease. Mr. R. ALSTON.—A veteran Whig, a distinguished member of Brooks's. Mr. Rowland Alston, has just died in London at the age of 83. He was a magistrate and ...

... too—went in for Reform precedents from the Parliament of 1628, for opinions of Lord Somers, and Lord Durham, and ether eminent Whigs on Reform—and altogether took a page out of Hallam. The conclusion of his speech was as fine in its way as anything he has ...

... studionsly conciliatory towards the Liberal Government, and so flavoured with a prescriptive tinge of feeling almost worthy of a Whig in some of its sentences, that it will be regarded by many as a bid for office. He said the new Administration is composed ...