... DEATH OF WILLIAM LOWNDES YANCEY. The Richmond Whig of July 31 announces the death of the eminent Confederate citizen Mr W. L. Yancey, at MontgomeryAlabama. Born in South Carolina 1815, he resided for a long period of his life in Alabama, where, up to ...

... devoted by the Whigs to kind of political posturemaking. An equivocal Christian of the early ages kept on bowing terms with Jupiter, lest perchance the old mythology should one day again resume its sway. Profiting so judicious a precedent, the Whigs, uncertain ...

... emancipation which the Whigs achieved for Scotland told anew, with all that undoubting faith in its veracity which a party man must needs exhibit. It would almost seem to settled article of the Whigs— we mean, of course, Edinburgh Whigs—that but for their ...

... Carlton Club is fatal them. A truly Christian Whig, when smitten, as Mr Osborne has been, on the right cheek, would doubtless have turned the left cheek also to the hand of the smiter ; but truly Christian Whigs are rare fowl. Had Mr Osborne at once admitted ...

... inaugurated might ultimately land the Whigs in intricate jungle of briars and thorns rather tha a land flowing with milk and honey. We hay therefore, during the past few days, heard litt from that section of the Whig party in which ab horrence Bright is ...

... politician, stw that to attempt a reconstruction of a Whig Cabinet upon the old traditionary basis was no longer possible. The country had got tired of the stock statesmen out of which so many Whig cabinets been manufactured. It was in this known temper ...

... cities of England, and notwithstanding the desertion of the aristocratic Whigs, you have many warm and true friends among the Whig party in tbe House of Commons. hold myself to Whig in sense the word bore in 1832, and do many of my friends the platform ...

... THE MANSE AND THE FRANCHISE. Political reform has reached the point which exhausts the programme of traditional Whigs. d& not wonder, in such circumstances, that the Nestor of the party invites us to rest and be thankful. There is, no doubt, much to ...

... their political opponents. It is the duty, then, of the real Reformers to create this necessity, to make it clear to the Whigs that they must either actus real Liberals or give up their places to real Conservatives. We must tell them that it will not ...

... Disfranchise number of small Whig boroughs and transfer their seats to places now unrepresented, the voters in which form the strength of the Liberal party in the counties, and the thing is done to considerable extent. The Whig borough loses its members ...

... their successors. But upon that there can now be little difference between the two parties. Whig and Tory are agreed that Venetia should not be given up to Italy. Whig and Tory are agreed that Hungary should continue the appanage of the Hapburgh. We cannot ...

... periodical, hlue and yellow bound. That appears old Whig as comes round, And many good old-fashioned Whig would make a sad ado, Were quarter-day to pass without his Eiiinbunjh Keeietr. But not old Whig uniform of blue and yellow pied Was clad that Edinburgh ...