... called a distinguished luau, though what he was distinguished in he did not know, exceopt that he ha~d been connected with every Whig job for many years. Still, in his way, he was really as good a fellow as ever lived. A crisis had now come, and the more he ...

... occasion no such moderation has been. observed, and the Premier, contrary to the Conservative tradition, has vied with his Whig predecessors in scat- tering the honours of the peerage. On the whole, the House of Lords has increased inordinately in numbers ...

... Berwick was about sixty-five years of ago. He was chairman of the county of Water- ford for some years. He 'Was employed' by the Whig Government in several arduous cases, and acquitted himself so successfully that, on the first opportunity, they made him a ...