... the candidate for the Whig party, Winthrop, was induced to withdraw, in order that a newchoice might be adopted, and new attempt made to obtain a sufficient majority. No advantage, however, was gained by this policy, for the Whig concentration was rather ...

... announcement and the clapping of hands in the gallery was tremendous Order having been demanded, and partially restored Stan ey, Whig, of Ohio, offered a resolution, that Mr Cobb be declared the speaker of the House of Representatives Mr Root desired the question ...

... hayrick. The birds appeared to be healthy but the feathers the one which remained feeding seemed greatly ruffled.— Northern Whig. The Caterpillar and the Butterfly—(A Fable.)— The caterpillars, when on their number having been laid up as chrysalis, arose ...

... murder has been perpetrated in Ulster ; but it would appear that this crime had no connection with the land system. The Belfast Whig of Tuesday contains the following particulars :—The victim of this diabolical act is James Nocher, of Drumaness, a most i ...

... refuse the franchise to those who were unfitted to exercise it. Had he been parliament at the time he should have opposed the Whig bill. Sir B. HALL assailed tbe course taken by Mr Disraeli, and taunted bim with having been the protege of Mr Feargus O'Connor ...

... of their vigour and efficiency had King William IV. received, that when, in November, Lord Althorp became a peer, and the Whigs therefore lost their leader in the House of Commons, his Majesty sent to Italy to summon Sir Robert Peel to his councils, with ...

... their usual zeal andj [ardour to acquire a auxiliary in the person of the Duke! Cambridge. was courted alike by Tory and by Whig.j the one hand he was solicited by Fox, Sheridan, the; Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex, and the Duchess ofj (Devonshire—on ...

... Duffy, of the Nation, said— I abhor all outrage against a woman —I abhor all coarseness towards a woman ; but I tell the Whig Ministry from this place, as told them from other places, and as I sha'nt fail to tell them, that while Smith O'Brien is in ...

... New York, July 13, 1850.—Our despatches from Washington, last evening, are of a very important character. We learn that the Whig members of the Senate, or at least such of them as are in favour the Compromise Bill introduced by Mr Clay, held a meeting ...

... succeeded its accomplishment. In 1h44 he was selected as tbe Whig candidate for governor of New York, but failed. Confident, however, that he could command tbe strongest vote in New York, the Whigs again selected him as their candidate for comptroller, in ...

... the people of Stirling seem so lukewarm in this matter. With Sir Robert's politics I meddle not; I refer to him neither as a Whig nor a Conservative; refer to him afar more important light, one in which his character and name will ever be revered, honoured ...

... the country, its weight of personal confidence, and its sound Whig principles. The choice of the President is open to serious criticism, on account of its bearing on the prosperity of the Whig party. The Hon. W. R. King, of Alabama, had been selected to ...