... but discouraging to the Conservative cause. Of the twelve Councillors going out of office, 9 were Whigs and 3 Conservatives, By the present election 7 Whigs are returned and 5 Con- servatives, We subjoin the final close of the poll:- FRANKFORT WARD. ST ...

... whatever inference may be drawn. from it. The Times attributes the decrease. in the Stamp duties to the diminished sale of W'hig newspapers, and sums up ?? a word, without adverting to minor details, our readers will see by the abstract which' we publish ...

... , &c. There are two distinct rumours curront as to the reduiction of thc sugar duties that migit be malo on tio ?? of the Whigs to office. According to one of thede the now duties would be 10r., 20s., anod 25s. per cwt., ?? the tbree several descriptions ...

... taslk is to he itdefinitely continued. Every perso t valuing the -nu~ity of election, on which such stress hen been laid by Whigs and Tories-in and out of Parliament-must regard the objects of sueb an association as calculated to destroy the indepenilence ...

... oil its circamstances, the most gratifying that was ever offored to a country. Let the opponents of the pressnt Government-Whigs, Radicals, Leaguers, Rlepealers-rail their best, they cannot rail 1 the seal off the bond. The pro. foundly practical people ...

... THE FLYING-POST. IExErE --R. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1848. THE WHIGS AND THE INCOME-TAX. IT is amusing to witness the shifts which the present b Ministry and their followers are obliged to resort to in their endeavour to remove the odium with which at e present ...

... or for fresh fortifications at Gibraltar, Labuan, or Hong-kong. This was the view entertained by Sir Henry Parnell, a great Whig authority; who, in his work upon Financial Reform, written when the Duke of Wellington was at the head of affairs, whilst arguing ...

... especially in their attempts t6 legislate for Irehimid. With such a concession there is a manifest willing. oless ?? the Whigs have fair play, without any heartily- exprosslid coifidauce that they will long succeed in safely guiding the hleltoA of the ...

... outlay of capital, and afte:egtailing upon thousands of our fellow creatures sufferigsofithe most revolting character, that the Whig Government did wrong in submitting to the dictation of the cotton lords, and that they would have done right in acting upon ...

... case otill proceeds. :TO COIII1JSPONDENTS. 1r. ?? is dreie, si to accept olr focal hoalko ,for his eommnaoieetios. 'An Old W~hig C~itzeo;. revurke on ilke lofe dfr. Jobs Cookc orc o zos>lp, aod hids eo uy,1 isld 'of t/c . sakind a tiack rerV ]Rfprithe ...

... still, if it be true that in their day of power they exercised it pretty abundantly,-the Mornitig Herald asserting that the Whigs opened all OtConnel's Letters! We admire consistency in any Party, and those at least who indulged in the opening of Letters ...

... Tilest it wtts supported isv tisi I risit ?? wise 'tie' oppose it ;-thon it was a vis-ie mii lititific Iii neisediitg of the Whig 0 overssment, now it is leiviittceul as ate itifring'ms'nit of' tlse libeirty' of the Fit Ii] i-y ~et thtere is fatl- ttsste ...