... losing all temper, which until now he had preserved in wonderful manner, he paused in the midst of sentence, and, looking the Whigs indignantly in the face, raised his hands, and, opening his mouth as wideas its dimensions would permit, said, in remarkably ...

... in the House of Commons when it pleased Lord Palmerston in 1856 to recommend him to the Queen for a peerage. He was a good Whig, and, no doubt, had fairly earned his promotion, but as a public man he was little known out of his own county either as a ...