... “Liberal, but no Whig, he also deals with satisfactorily, and concludes as follows:—“I have only to add that the Whig Government nothing. I have not asked and I have not received anything at their bands ; and if I have supported Whig principles, I have ...

... declining the nomination, and declaring his adhesion to Mr Fremont. This letter i« said to have been surreptitiously obtained. The Whigs were to hold convention at Baltimore on the 17th September I nominate candidates for the Presidency and Vice PresHency. It ...

... the struggle for independence it was of course natural th t the loyalists should be classed Tories, and the insurgents as Whigs. The distinction is ufed, if we remember, in Cooper’s Spy.” Equally natural it was that the latter title should survive the ...

... ’’ It was “all arranged.Cobden had committed himself to the declaration that be preferred Disraeli to the Premier. The old Whigs, who had hated the coalition, and egged on Lord John’’ to break it up, went about with the cry of “ you were,” The Peebles ...

... determined not to ally myself to either of the great parties that then divided the House of Commons and the kingdom. I was never Whig nor Tory but I went into the House of Commons determined to advocate that which I believed to be the interest of the people ...

... simulacrum of a candidate, a banner under which pique and bigotry did battle with what is called the Whig Clique”—a nickname for the compact and organised Whig party of Edinburgh. the hustings Mr Douglas, as the mouthpiece of the disafiected, was, of course ...

... are assured that the proposed meeting is entirely free from anything of party character, and that it is to be attended by Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, sinking, for time, all sectional differencea. —D tily News. Openin'’of the Corn Trade with Ruseia. A ...

... political parties in the States appear to have fallen into confusion almost as complete that which prevails in this country. The Whigs, or Federalists, who might in some sense be termed the conservatives of the Union, have nearly disappeared as a separate body; ...

... expressed a hope that he would again figure as member of the present Cabinet, in alliance with Lord Palmerston and his old Whig friends; and suggesting, public and private grounds, that his Lordship should raised to the 1 eerage. The above journal thus ...

... took active part roost of the popular agitations the day. He was the originator of the Argus newspaper, long the organ of the Whig party in this city, under the successive editorships of Mr William Weir, Mr William Lang, Mr Thornton Hunt, and Dr Charles ...

... birds. —Banffshire Journal. Rogues All. —Sir Walter Scott was once asked wherein consisted the difference between a Tory and a Whig. Why, man,” laughingly quoth the Baronet, the former is like highwayman—he bids you stand and deliver, and you may have some ...

... considered mortally wounded, though Dr Merritt thinks he will recover. The recovery oi Claiborne is scarcely possible. —Memphie Whig. A New Lighthouse. —For two years past, tho Nee Ilea Rock, the furthest distant from the land has been cut down to form foundation ...