... into a corner and pinioned there beyond the power of escape, the editor of the Whig has our permission to indulge low-born instincts in low-flung bravado. Of course the Whig replies in a similar strain, to which its antagonist rejoins witb increased vigour ...

... his own election was consitfered certain by his friends, if the contest had been between him and a liberal. Mr. Somers is the Whig candidate, and it is expected h will have Lord Palmerston's influence, which is very stroiv in that locality. ...

... dge on the 31st August. The former were , defeated. Commercial affairs unchanged since the 'departure of the Persia. , The Whig Mass National Convention had met at Baltimore; the North American Mass Convention was assembled at Syracuse; the Republican ...

... evening. W. D. T. Wickham, Esq., the returning officer, declared the poll at five o'clock on the hustings, as follows:—Boyle (whig),. 158; Nicoll (liberal), 157. ...

... the earldom he relinquished all active share in politics, although he uniformly gave his support in the House of Lords to the Whig party. In December, 1846, he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Kent, on the resignation of the late Earl of Thanet ...

... has nine lives how many Lord John has it is impossible to tell. Twice last session he committed, in the opinion of every man, Whig, Tory, or Radical, political suicide, and yet he is again spoken of as coming back to office. It is clear London won t have ...

... crime, being influenced thereto by superstition. THE OYSTER AND THE SHELL.—On or about the 15th of May, 1854, says the Northern Whig, a Mrs.| Macartney made a will, leaving, with the exception of a few trifling articles, all her property, to her daughter, ...

... always thought of the highest consequence to win the great metropolitan constituency. At present it is in the hands of the Whigs but the Conservatives are sure of one seat at the next election. From the general summary of objections made and sustained ...

... not commence with the two or three first letters of the alphabet. ONE OF THE PEEL SCHOOL.— Look at young Stumble, said a Whig to a Tory, as that distinguished budding Peelite was scrambling through a briary speech, That makes the tenth orange he's got ...

... working the British Constitution. I read further in Dod that Mr. Hayter was first returned for Welts in August, 1837-that he is a Whig-that he lias uniformly voted in favour of the total abolition of the Corn Laws, and for Free Trade in its most extended accepta- ...

... which closed on Wednesday at 87g, rose to 89-1, or an advance of 3 per cent. on Tuesday's prices. The Evening Post, the Irish Whig organ, in its number of Thursday evening, thus refers to the effect of the news upon the public mind here In Dublin the agitation ...

... relinquished that place to Earl Spencer, in December, 1853. In politics it is almost unnecessary to say his Grace was a staunch Whig. He was highly incensed at the Papal aggression, and the same year his Grace renounced the Roman Catholic faith, and passed ...