... appear that the present times nry much resemble those of James the Second. The whigs of this, and the preceding reign, hare been doing precisely the reverse of what the whigs did from 1680 to 1688. The latter were the rampant adversaries and denouncers ...

... Political lEittelltgtnce. Aylesbury Election. — On Friday tho elec- tion took place. The candidates were Mr. Cal- vert, a sort of Whig, but of accredited Protestant principles, and Mr. Houghton, a farmer, also a good Protestant, were the candidates. A third ...

... about feet length,) and others, werut once overwhelmed. It is feared that Id lives been lost. The loss will about It Northern Whig, in extra edition, gives an of the commencement of the inquest on twelve the bodies. Another (making the entire deaths thirteen) ...

... Sir,—The recent agitation for the revival of Convocation has evidently excited no small amount of alarm and uneasiness in the Whig ranks. The organs of the party, from the Times down to the Manchester guardian, have condemned the movement, and vilified its ...

... therefore, the English Whigs might just as well have sent an embassy to Timbuctoo, or Bullock's Smithy, Chowbent 1 Ane Papal aggression is lust as much a great fact n,„ . • c Tim once said the Anti-Corn Law League was, and a Whig emissary can just as ...

... Church the nation. Not but that much of what the Irish hierarchy complait,has as been attributable the loose policy of the Whig Viceroy, accompanied by his decided leanings to Rome j but it is not to be denied that late years there has not been, practically ...

... which seems to be opening for her as she glides into the second half of this great -centenary eye'e of our race,— The Northern Whig The Condition of Ireland.—The DublinEvcning Pof. contains a view, retrospective and prospective, of the material condition ...

... hands of the Most Rev. Dr. Slattery, the venerable Archbishop of CasheL Falling of Mill.—Sehious Loss of Life. The Belfast Whig of Saturday contains the following account of a melancholy accident which occurred in that town on Friday An accident—the ...

... proposed at the hustings: that, at hit latest and most amusing font of political »tumbling,” in 1816, wrote to the retiring whig member that Would support Captain Sombbsii, free-trader;” while in a few short months after, the very next year, 1847, Sir ...

... derived from the Taxes on Knowledge.n we 'Without a very vigorous popular movement, how- om ever, we have no hope that the Whigs will be dis-a ;ant posed to abolish the newspaper stamp duty, and in the all probability they would think they had sufficiently ...

... retained the country so unjustly acquired. That the Court of Directors disapproved of both measures is certain. For the first, the Whig Government is responsible; for the second, Lord Ellenborough. As to the im- politic treaty that led to the last Sikh war, the ...

... of Free lb Trade will have the effect of augmenting the ranks th of the Opposition to such an extent as to render di the Whigs totally unable to withstand the on- so slaught of their combined opponents. Whether p- this expect&tion will be realised or ...