... choicest spirits of what was then the choicest literary society of Edinburgh. He cast in his lot with the young men professing Whig politics, and was soon enlisted in the literary corps of the Edinburgh Review, to which he contributed a number of criticisms ...

... done me by appointing me to preside on this most interesting and this most important occasion. I have been from principal a Whig from my earliest years and I sin not likely to forsake my colours, especially now in the time of adversary. (Cheers.) I have ...

... was returned for Devonport, yesterday, by a majority of 75 votes. Mr. Brassey is a Radical, and replaces Sir H. Buller, a Whig. The proprietors of the Saturday Review denied the competency of the 'Scottish courts to try the action brought against them ...

... brought in a democratic reform bill in the hopes of destroying his political opponents. He called upon the scions of the old Whig constitutional families to recollect' their hereditary principles, awl to consi let the principles of their party. The safety ...

... Wight, which he appears to have iield without interruption until 1831, when his old constituents, alarmed at his joining the Whig reforming party, and at the prospect of a reform bill, rejected him. It may be convenient here to state that his lordship ...

... It is to be hoped that the police will keep a sharp look out for • the person to whom the clergymen referred.- - Northern Whig. Mr. Bright'is about to go through one of his favourite performances. Several years ago, when the Conservative paity were, ...

... of the House has reported upon tho resolutions expressing an unalterable determination to prosecute the war. The Richyzand Whig says that there was no cotton in CharlestOri at tile time of the evacuation. The Richmond papers infer that Sherman is consummating ...

... a portion of the surplus to the relief of unavoidable calamity. . . . A conversation ensued, principally carried on by the Whig peers and the independent party among the Opposition, and satisfaction was expressed almost generally with the arrangement ...

... the new administration. Lord Stanhope wilj also probably accept office, but it is hoped that some of the more Conservative Whigs will join Lord Derby, who would be prepared to concede to them an adequate representation in the Cabinet. Wednesday's Pall-mall ...

... Friona proceeded to visit the Duke of Devonshire at Lismore, and on the 30th to Shane, Castle to Lord O'Neill.—The Northers. Whig says it is now ascertained that Priace Arthur will pay a visit to Belfast. A town meeting is to be held to make arrangements ...

... naturally turned upon the Subject. The clergyman said he thought the Castle was adopting a course calculated to injure the Whigs in popularity, and not provocative of admiration. The gentleman quite agreed with him, and said he thought they were carrying ...

... in Bolton, when he fell between ;hem, injuring his spine so much as to cause his death on Sunday. GOING CIRCUIT.—The (Thincy Whig say that Professor Quinn, of New York, who is out west on a lecture tour, has reached that place direct from St. Paul on skates ...