... summer with the same result. Indeed, nothing could excuse or explain a want of success on the part of the defence. The Richmond Whig of the same date says— The enemy has been foiled- in all its efforts. His dead strew the ground in front of our works; our ...

... to justify the inference that Sir James has been cavalierly treated, and that the change has been effected to perpetrate a Whig job to promote family aggrandizement. The facts have now become known, and they prove most satisfactorily that no slight ...

... party that is committed to an anti-national and retrogressive policy. We sometimes hear that the distinctive appellations of Whig and Tory, Liberal and Conservative, have ceased to have any signification—that few men are prepared to stand by the old party ...

... interest in this borough. Eveiy other subject is placed in abeyance, pending the struggle which to determine the ascendancy of Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative. There is a novelty in singly-contested election : a similar instance has not occurred since ...

... enemy has been driven from several positions, but s*ill confronted him. He captured guns and 2,500 prisoners. The Richmond Whig estimates the Confederate loss at 5,000 men, including six generals killed and seven wounded. The Federal loss is estimated ...

... The Scotsman announces the death of Mr. John Clark, the last surviving member of the famous Westminster Whig Committee, in the proceedings of which, at the beginning of the present century, Paul Thelwall and Home Tooke were so intimately concerned. ...

... with the politics of successive Administrations; but never was his advice given factiously, or from party motives, to either Whig or Tory Lord Lieutenant; in fact, throughout his life he kept himself entirely free from partisanship. American scholars give ...

... Russell then dissolve! Parliament, and Sir Robert Peel went back with 90 members pledged to protection, when he found that the Whigs had been progressing so fast thai they had left debt of 7 8 millions behind them. He said, I must repair this difficulty ...

... much by Lord Derby, though he is not over particular which way it is, as by Mr. Disraeli, and his band admirers. Since the Whigs have been in office, these people say, there has been no progress. With ineffable assurance those who write like this overlook ...

... CLERGY POETIZED. Hunt not, fish not, shoot not, Dance not, fiddle not, flute not; Be sure you have nothing to do with the Whigs ; But stay home and feed your pigs ; And, above all, I make it my special desire, That, at least, once a week you dine with ...

... was canvassing Cambridge University, and asked Musgrave, afterwards Archbishop of York, for his vote, the reply was /am a Whig still, air! Musgrave's dog was couchant under the chair on which the candidate was sitting, and was advised to take care ...

... that event, equally as a matter of course, political changes must be expected. Exactly so! With the fall of Atlas the whole Whig world will rush down into irretrievable ruin, and the Conservative chiefs will be sent for, and the good time which has been ...