... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... in the negative. From this he turned to consider who are to suffer from the dissolution. The Whigs—and he had an old feeling in favour of the old Whigs—are, contrary to the party practices of former times, to be rewarded by the retention of their ...

... gentlemen in India to go unpuni bed Of what use is to talk abstract of army reform when military sins are never noticed ?— Belfast Whig. ...

... the members for Leeds, puts an end to a compromise in that town, in accordance with which a mild Conservative and a milder Whig have shared the representation, and there is some talk of the Liberals nominating Mr Cobden. The Neufchatel affair is disposed ...

... contemporary charges with Whig leanings, we presume because supported Sir John Ogilvy in the late election ; but Sir John Ogilvy is not a Whig-he has always been and much more. Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell are Whigs— both them, for instance, ...

... probability, therefore, is, that the general election will considerably strengthen Lord Palmerston, and so dissolve the Tory-Whig-Radical and Peelite combination against him. The following members of the House of Commons for this quarter voted in the minority ...

... The registration of the county has been much neglected, but it is thought possible that if the Duke's nominee obtains all the Whig and portion of the Tory influence, he may succeed in displacing Mr Stirling. In the kingdom of Fife Mr Fergus will have to ...