... THE NAPIER FAMILY. Tha Napiers, of Merchistoun. are one of the oldest families in Scotland. Sir John Napier, the celebrated inventor of logarithms, was lineally descended from Sir Alexander Napier, who held courtly offices in the reign of James the Second ...

... WM4 embodied were theu to, after »li>clitli ir lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Traanar THANKS TO THE IHOIAH ARMY Sir JOHN lIOBHOUSE proposed vote of thanks the army in India similar that in Hie I.ords, and also votes of thanks to the o*- eers. ...

... were added to the Irish House Commons by the house of Stuart ( Grattan's Life, by his son, v 01.4, page 119 and supra.) Various attempts had been made to reform this oligarchy. The armed convention of the volunteers, led on by Mr. Flood, tried to do ...

... the honours of the listh. Some explanation was given Ly Sir J. Holt;louse and Lord John Rus.cll upon this subject; and alter a few remark, from Mr. Nlaugles, Mr. Grattan, and Colonel Mimi., and a warm eulogium upon the character and of the Earl of Dalhousie ...

... were added to the Irish House of Commons by the house of Stuaat ( Grattan's Life, by his son, vol. 4, p. 119, and sepra). Obrious attempts had been made to reforu this oligarchy. Tie) armed convention of tile Volunteers, led on by 'Ar. Flood, tried to do ...

... egotism may have suffered slight disruption from the passage at arms, in which bis l(*ikbip and his lordship’s cabinet were signally and disgracefully discomfitted on Thursday night by Marshal John Reynolds, of Dublin, the Sardinian Monarch by the Austrian ...

... Campbell Mrs. Kelly Mrs. Klnran Mrs. Monahan Mrs. M‘Evoy Mrs. Cbestre Mrs. Comyn Mrs. Corr Mrs. Cowcn Mrs. John Darcy Mrs. M'Dennott Mrs. Maher Mrs. John M'Dermott Mrs. M‘Donnell Mrs. M'Kenna Mrs. H. Dease Mrs. Dolan Mrs. Mrs. J. O’Brien Mrs. O’Carroll Mrs ...

... afternoon at the Foreign-office. Lord John Russell, the Lord Chanoellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, the Right Honourable ...

... European and Native, for the service rendered to the British empire by the signal overthrow of the numerous enemies combined in arms against them ; and that the opinion of this house be signified to them by the Commanders of the several corps. That the thanks ...

... Blackall, Blake, Sir J. Burke, Crawford, Grattan, Greene, Lawless, M'Cullagh, Monhell, John and Timothy O’Brien, O’Connor, N. Power, and some few others less well known to your readers, voted in the majority, as did also John O’Connell, though not at all a M ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE LORDS—Tuesday, April 24. THANK* TO TIIU ARM* 1* THE PCXJIIn. Lor.l having seconded the series of resolutions proposed by the Marquis Lansdo.vne, and the Earl of having recommended the government advise her Majesty to order a ...

... confidence the Indian my. and remarked that when he heard the noble lord at the the government speak of that army jeopardy- JOHN RUSSELL—I did not say anything of the Mr. MANGLES said that when heard the noble lord say that such and such steps must be ...