... entitled The Old Monk in the Belfr-y. There is great vigour and solemnity in this tale of human misery. Under the title of A Great Whig Journalist we find a valuable biographical notice of Daniel Defoe. It is in fact a review of Mr. William Lee's work on the ...

... of the time, chief of chiefs and hero of heroes, Nawab Governor-General Lord Minto, Bahddur. So did the image of a Scotch Whig peer reflect itself in the mind of a Calcutta moulvie in i8io. The book is interesting as a specimen of Mohammedan benevolent ...

... worst of it, if we may be allowed thus to parody the famous speech in which Dr. Johnson desoribed his mode of dealing with tho Whig and Tory members ofPar- liament hen ho Nvas acting as a roporter. Thc ?? hardly aspire to the dignity of history; yet, as a ...

... allored o ao to Parlament till be gets rich, he aould. never o a alL. I believe some ofthe old Tories arew ?? ,han some of the Whig nomniaes-i resolution; was iessed'to form' a committee in favo~ur of Mr. Odger. THE[ RglEENATI OP MiYL~OH ^-At tbe neeting ...

... especially that in which she says she will not be Heckter'd (sic), by the Whigs; and another ic which she expresses c hope that she may not fall into the hands of either party, W~hig or Tory, as iu that case she would regard herself aes not a Queen, but ...

... nt can teach. The Refosm Bill of 8g6o, known to be no favourite with the Premier himself, was snubbed by the aristocratic Whigs, and allowed by Lord Palmerston to be so nearly defeated that Lord Russell was compelled to let it fall. No attempt to introduce ...

... Lyndhurst have so much the less reason to complain that Lord Campbell is impartially lavish of criticism and condemnation. Of the Whig party, perhaps Lords Grey and Lansdowne escape as easily as any, but Lords Melbourne and Althorpe have little reason to co ...

... the world. We are told not to be afraid that modern progress is about to land us in democracy, and are bidden to admire the Whigs as the great fountain of all political blessings. The tone is rather that of 40 years ago than of the present day. Messrs. ...

... bloonir'd without decay, And birds that il the woodland wild, When talked to, would not fly away. 01' insects with bright golden whigs, And trees which bore a magic fruit And of some seraph voice which sing;, With gentle music like a flute. )remining, in bright ...

... political complexion of the Pall Mall Gazetle, translated into an equivalent American designation is, it seems, Old Line Whig. London amusements appear in a much more favourable light to Mr. Fiske than to most of our visitors, and, it may be added ...

... Robert, highly indignant at the paltry reductions so pertinaciously moved in offlcil sa- Ilarios, and belonging to that old Whig party whose oreed was tint there was a class which should rever be sub- Jeoted to vulgar discussion and popular opinion, was ...

... of surprise which entsued, Shrewsbury rose and thanked them for their offer. (This nobleman, it appears, was in reality a Whig, but he had succeeded in deceiving Bolingbroke, who fully relied upon his fidelity, and had bestowed upon him the offices of ...