... A SERIES OF POLITICAL PORTRAITS. (From the second rolume—just published—of Memoirs of the Whig party during my Time, by Holland):— LORD TRURLOW, Lord Thurlow bati — besta --- Loid High Chancellor for fourteen years; and had then and since enjoyed ...

... The wmk of fusing the Whig party of the North in an anti-slavery party is going on with more or less success. In Vermont and Maine, it has already been done, and the joint candidates put into office. In Michigan the Whigs have surrendered without terms ...

... to see business begun With more action, and less aspiring. The historian will write on our funeral stone, When resolved into Whig dust and Tory— They passed not bill, but t'icy raised not loan; Be this their sole title to gloryP«nc/V ...

... Lockhart admits, gave great offence to the many sincere personal friends whom Scott numbered among the upper ranks of the Whigs. He had been gazetted Clerk of Session during Fox's Administration, and his anti-Foxite zeal was construed into ingratitude ...

... OF THE JOURNALS. LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE REFORM BILL. ( Frost the Press.) Lord John Russell has staked the fortunes of the Whig party, and his own fame, one remodelling of the llouse of Commons. He has done this after deep thought and long calcu:ation ...

... assailed them in 1831, but numerous scions of conspicuous or influential Whig houses had gone over to the other side. For instance, there was the Marquis of Douglas, the heir of the great Whig house of Hamilton (who attended Lord Derby's political dinner last ...

... confidence of the Crown. The object of the minority-representation clause, he said, was to give the Whigs some of the forty-six new county seats; but Whig county members were of a class that only put a drag on Liberal Government, as much so as if they were ...

... cliquish spirit of some great Whigs, even Lord Dunfermline must have his kick at the compromise of a divided Cabinet, as if there ever was a Whig measure that was not a compromise since the beginning of time. Theox-ministerial Whigs have no popularity to spare ...

... . The accounts are in some degree conflicting, especially as regards the amount of actual damage to the roots. The Belfast Whig of Thursday states that their own reports the crop received that day are not cheering character, yet that they have been informed ...

... is on. the face of it untrue, for the Whigs, as we remarked last week, have gained nothing whatever by the changes. A Whig (Mr Strutt) has been displaced for another Whig (Sir George Grey) ; Lord Granville, a Whig, has been lowered in office to make room ...

... States, six were given by Whigs, three by Democrats. Of the 95 27 are from mm slave-holding States, 63 from slave-holding States. All from non slave-holding Stites who voted against the motion are I)emicrets. Fourteen southern Whigs voted against it, and ...

... a Peelite has got the new office, a Whig obtains the one he leaves; and if Lord John Russell, hitherto unattached, has now received Cabinet dignity, room has been made for him only by the transfer of another Whig. The state of parties in the Government ...