... appears to have been the policy ot the Whig party to propose one candidate only at the contests in 1737 and in 1754. In tbe latter instance, Robert Mitford, Esq., better known as Major Mitford, was the ' Whig candidate. He waa opposed with all the interest ...

... other. Having called the attention of our readers to this im- portant matter, some months ago, when the letters of •* An Old Whig appeared in the Chronicle, we are happy to find that the views we then expressed— but which were more ably aud more extensively ...

... important lesson not to expect grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles, we anticipa c few good results from the union of Whig principles with aristocratic pretensions, exemplified in the caae of nearly every memlier of the ministry thus partially r ...

... meu agaiust whom tlie cry was directed. home we hear exclaim, You have got* a Government from Brookess club— old Whigs and youug Whigs— g.ve us middle-class meu, of advanced opinious aud business habits, to push on tho war. •' Who would you hs . * ...

... the clerical order. When the leases will be out 1 am unaware ; I nra told, however, that those leases are held by Tories and Whigs, and that they have some good pickings out of this noble chaiity, bequeathed by our Catholic ancestors. Verily, the raountaiu ...

... the statute which absolves all obedience to a king de facto. The reviewer also thus sums up the merits of the Whigs as a party : — The Whigs, it is true, have a conservatism of their own, but it instinctively clings to certain practical rules tried by ...

... Working ok the Maine Law —A little more than two months ago the Prohibitory Liquor Law, which had been passed by the Seward Whigs in connection with the ultra temperance men, went into nominal effect. Thns far it haa proved wbat all reasonable men foresaw ...

... is the duty of the inhabitants, to assist the police and to atrengthen them iv the discharge of their duty. Could tbe Old Whig himaelf. Mr Editor, have phrased this more to bis mind, or in terms more strong and cogent? Coming from the Leiceater bench ...

... favour at the Sooth. Tbe O.d Whigs have also ome to life again, and art- to-day to nominate their candidates. The Republicans, to whom the Whigs surrendered only a month since, have selected their candidates from both Whigs aud Democrats, aud have planted ...

... Election. — The election, after a very t it, l«s terminated in the defeat of Mr Digby u Radical), by Mr Henry Wm. Feu wick ( Whig). 'I j numbers were — for Fenwick 95G, for Seymour 6iG giiing the iormer gentleman a majority of 310. ILe large number of one ...

... understood, was about the most lucrative of his day. In 1841 be was named Attorney-General. Sharing the vicis- situdes of the Whig party, when the Protectionists revenged the repeal of the corn laws by deposing Sir Robert Peel, in July, 1846, Sir Thomas ...

... prououuced fit ouly for tbe Lunatic Asylum. No one who was at all cognizant of the proceedings at tbe late election— be he Tory, Whig, or Chartist— will deuy the truth of ibis statement. The state of af fairs here described was a matter of common observa- tion ...