... corruption at elections (hear, hear). With regard to the question of intimidation, Lord Macaulay, a great authority with the whigs, says nothing was ever proposed that would hava any effeet in protecting the voters from intimidation except the vote Ly ballot ...

... selected health in preference to a full river.— 1 I am, &e., “Davip Livincsroxe.” THE IRISH SECRET SOCIETIES. The Northern Whig of Friday has the following :— “The inquiry into the case of the sixteen prisoners arrested in Belfast on the sth December ...

... have got rid ot costly Bairy and the routine mediocrity of Pennethorne, the government architect. Sir Charles Trevelyan, a whig, has been appointed Governor of Madras. He has the reputation of being a man of great ability and fond of work, whose back ...

... _After leaving the university he took up his residence in Tondon, joined himself to the whigs, and acquired his first reputation as a contributor to the great Whig Review established in the northern metropolis.” Tur YANKEE AND Mr. Smrrn’s FAMILY.— | Well ...

... pointed to such a measure of reform as Mr. Bright now propoesed. He did not profess to speak either for the tory or the old whig party of Liverpool, but he came to that meeting as one of a considerable phalanx of the more advanced liberals, to express ...

... commandant at Scutari, and recently one of the secretaries at the Horse Guards—understands business and the oriental character. The Whig clubs declare that Lord Palmerston will have two hundred and fifty votes. On what question they don't say; and that is the ...

... James's-street, and that he has had as long experience on the turf as that other carpat soldier, the late General Anson, whom the Whigs sent to command the Indian armies just before the revolt. The controversy about Gothic architecture still continuss town talk ...

... scheme of electoral change. Large and liberal promises were held out vaguely of concessions to popular worth ‘and loyalty. Whig biddings were characterised as niggardly and narrow, and even Radical proposals were stigratised as wanting in comprehensiveness ...

... Japan, a reward for the protectionist struggles of his family. In this respect whigs and tories are tarred with the same brush. It was merciful that no one retorted on the whigs their appointment to an American consulship of great value and importance, quoting ...

... of May. A Canadian paper advertises for an editor, energetic, independent, honest, and unprejudiced, at which the Montreal Whig becomes very merry, and states that when such an individual is found, a fortune can be made by carrying him round for exhibition ...

... believe that the statement which appeared in one of our contemporaries —to the effect that a meeting of the heads of the old whig party was held on Saturday in reference to the course to be taken with regard to the Reform Bill—is wlilhuut any foundation ...

... evidence, was sométhing which did not appedar in the amendment and was not recognised in the speech of Lord John, which no whig {ovemnient would propose, and no government of any complexion hope to carry. Reviewing the provisions of the measure, the «wight ...