... succumbed the Lord Advocate in this matter, unless it was to give that gentleman the opportunity of showing how genuine wool-dyed Whig he has become. The Lord Advocate's bill defers the entire abolition of the tax to 15 years, but substitutes for the present ...

... history is sufficiently modern to make it unnecessary formally to state it. But it seems desirable to refresh certain oblivious Whig memories that their party was in power for about ten years without making any move whatever in the direction of free trade ...

... so much hint his belief in such a thing, and instantaneously he is branded as bigot. Singularly enough, however, the great Whig organ on the present occasion seems almost disposed to exchange its secular for a supernatural creed. But while this is so ...

... those taunts about the want of patriotism, with which some leading statesmen are aspersed. We are told by certain prominent Whig organs, how John Bright is constantly against his own country, and that his eloquent voice is always raised rather in vindication ...

... government, and that party cohesion militates very much against an impartial and independent consideration of the plan of a Whig official. Even men like Mr Adderley and Sir J. Pakington, who have not hesitated to differ in a marked manner from their party ...

... flagrant aggravation of the high-handed policy he was so far left to himself as to pursue. The curator of the noble scion of a Whig family, good taste might have dic tatcd different course (apart from weightier considerations), even although his colleague ...

... 1860, and 3,762,182 dols. in 1809. The increase explained by the large shipment of wheat, flour, &c. LINEN TRADE. The Be/fast Whig of Saturday says,—lt seems to be a pretty general opinion, that until after the inauguration of the new President, there need ...

... palpable. There may, indeed, for aught we know, be men short-sighted enough to imagine that a retrograde party, under faded Whig colours, could hold its stationary position in the face of a powerful and comprehensive opposition which boasts that it has ...

... superior class of spinnings; these sell at the extreme rates of the past month. Low wefts have sold at less money.— Northern Whig The Irish Lin Trade.-Several of the leading houses have been exceedingly busy this week the shipment of goods for New York ...

... broken to pieces—their fences laid waste and their homes in flames. &c, &c, &c, &c. SHINPLASTERS RICHMOND. (From the Richmond Whig, Mag 4.) Shinplasters again deluge the city. The refusal of the State and the Confederate authorities to authorise the issue ...

... and De Quincey bad sufficient fairness to see that Whigs and Tories did during all that time represent the halves of one great truth, and were not opposed to each other as truth and falsehood, as Whig writers anq speakers delight to represent them. But ...

... accomplished facts before becoming convinced of their political utility. Sir Robert Peel, according to Mr Disraeli, caught tiie Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.'' When we have laughed at the epigrammatic point of the criticism, have exhausted ...