... The Inconvenience op Praying in Hoops.—The following hoop story is from tbe Richmond Whig :—A few days ago, a modest young gentleman of our acquaintance attended the morning service in one of our churches. He was shown into a luxuriously cushioned pew ...

... exclusively ? These are the difficult questions to solve, even in the narrowest sense of Whig faction. Let small boroughs be abolished, and what will become of the Whigs ? The families would think twice before giving Malton, Peterborough, Calne, Tavistock ...

... political creed of the Scotsman is Whig-radicalism of the extremest type— and now, after reading the Scotsman's painful eulogy, we feel warranted in proclaiming to all whom it may concern, that Lord James Murray is a Whig Radical. It would be unfair to suppose ...

... Ireland. Unlike other places, Belfast issued no newspapers on the Fast Day : but, explains the Northern Whig, we are so riotous and religious ! A statue to Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, has been set on College Green, Dublin. On Wednesday it was ...

... because of our demonstration last week, deduced from the Scotsman's own evidence, and pleading that Lord James Murray was a Whig-radical, and being fain to undo the impression, now he repudiates all knowledge of Lord James' politics. This is funny. He ...

... l gentlemen belonging to tbe Whig party—not exactly to concert plans for future operations, but at which the subject was talked over; and it is, we believe, arranged that, on the retirement of our present member, the Whig party will solicit the suffrages ...

... which no duty has been paid to several other house 3 in town, and the loss to individuals is expected to be very great.—Belfast Whig. Uneasiness in Ireland.—The odium theologium rages in some parts of Ireland with almost unparalleled intensity, and we may ...

... telegraph for Bright, and closet himself with Lord John Russell, Gladstone, and Graham, and endeavour to construct Mancheoter-Whig-Peelite party ; and even now there are more improbable alliances. The election at Glasgow of a Member, vice John Macgregor ...

... Duke of Wellington himself, that the idea of making this request first originated. The young Queen was shocked it; was, the Whigs told her, an exorbitant pretension, utterly unauthorised by precedent. It was added that the great ladies of the Conservative ...

... said— Those rights of franchise under tbe Reform Bill which cost Lord Archibald Hamilton, Lord John Russell, and other eminent Whigs, the labour of half-a-century to obtain, must be viewed as valueless if the householders assembled this meeting not repudiate ...

... anything to say, replied that he would reserve his defence for another tribunal. Twiuth or July Riots Belfast. The Northern Whig reports alarming collisions in Belfast and neighbourhood, on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, between Orangemen and Roman Catholics ...

... declaration was very naturally followed by loud cheers from the opposition members, who are glad to see their game played the Whigs. all his arguments against the ballot Lord John Russell assumes that the general tendency of voters would be to belie their ...