... society into which Lord Melbourne, William Lamb, was born-whatever was fascinating and fair, as Mr. Torrens says, in the Whig salons of the last twenty years of the eighteenth century-has often been described, and the scraps which Mr. Torrens adds do ...

... economy. It is not impossible that the bias of the Whigs to a liberal commercial policy may date from this acquaintance, and Shelburne certainly set the example, so successfully imitated by other Whig patricians, of making his house the resort of men of ...

... declared, and it amounts simply, as has been said ever since the Tories took office, to an acceptance of the policy of the Whigs. We do not suppose, says Blackwoodcs, that Mr Gladstone's Cabinet in their inmost convictions differ very materially from ...

... Liberal Party, however, is the principal political contribution, being a brilliant sequel to Lord Salisbury's Appeal to the Whigs in the October number. The most important literary articles are based on Mrs Somner- ville's ' Personal Recollections,' and ...

... lly extolled by the politician is categorically censured by the Church. man. The fervent satisfaction expressed by the old Whig chief with the judgment in the Gorham case, and his indignation at the persecution of the appel- lant, may be compared with ...

... the Prince Consort, and to explain why this volume had not been noticed in the Edinburgh before. The ancient organ of the Whigs was startled, it confesses, by the extraordinary doctrines as to the prerogatives of the Crown which were part of the legacy ...

... magazines or reviews, of which 338 appear monthly, and 76 quarterly. We notice that in it the ?? is described as an advocate of Whig principles. That statement we beg to contradict. Valentines are hardly to be classed with books; and those which Mr Rimmel ...

... being a history of Mme. Bonaparte-Patterson, and the other a lively one suggested by Mr. Macvey Napier's Correspondence, Whig Reviewers as Painted by Themselves, in which there is some of the old Christopher North spirit-the prettiest quarrel in the ...

... he would have accepted it is pooh-poohed. A few pages further, Sir R. Peel is called all sorts of names for dishing the Whigs, and for sucking other people's brains ; while, still later, no words can express the author's admiration for the Conservative ...

... preparing them to com- pete with the foreigner, even if protection should be withdrawn. Though Mr Molesworth is too hearty a Whig to be accepted as an altogether safe authority, the most interest- ing as well as the best written parts of his volume are ...

... circumstances; the difficulty was eventually removed by the judicious mediation of the Duke of Wellington. The advent of the Whigs to power made Denman Attorney-General, and he found himself obliged, in his turn, to appear as the prosecutor of rural and ...

... religion in general, which might, one would have thought, have been amusing rather than irritating. No Evangelical and no Whig of tolerable sanity would have been gravely dis- turbed at his canonisation of Laud. Why should any Christian have been more ...