... member of various associations connected with natural history. In politics the deceased Professor was through. out a consistent Whig, while in literature his name is widely known amongst medical prac- titioners as the author of a small but comprehen- sive ...

... Rev. Canon Gibson, of Mfan. chester, the Rev. Henry Bowen Cooke, rector of Dar- field, Yorkshire, to Georgina Helen Elizabeth Whig- ,bar, daughter of the late George Whighaw, Esq., of Halliday Hill, Dumnfriesshire. DEATH S.. HUNTER-At Canaan Lane, Morningside ...

... hostility of the Tory party, (r i then strong under the skilful guidance of Peel-f through the more disguised hostility of the Whigs |f -Richard Cobden worked his way. Lord Mel. -01 bourne, who went through. life hoping that every- b' body would let everything ...

... and nearly drove the Whig ministers mad by their speeches and their sarcasms. In August 1836 Lord Lyndhurst made the speech which is perhaps the best remembered of any results of the session, he exposed the incapacity of .the W'higs, a0id certainly c6vfe'td ...

... Ranasay Garden, on the 20th ' inst., by the Rev. Robert Lee, D.D., Frank Dalsell ' Finlay, E sq., proprietor of the Northern Whig, Be'. fast, to Janet, eldest daubhter of Alex. Russel, Esq., of thc &otsvind. MUa TY-M'RAT-At 23 Duke Street, on the 20th inst ...

... evidence as to his ability as a ?? could not be found than in the filet that during the present year he was the nominiee of the Whig party of the Faculty of Advocates for the Chair of Scots Law. It will be remem- bered by those who took an interest in the ...

... promoted to the office of Joint Secretary to the Treasury. He relinquished this place in November t of the same year, when the Whig Government gave I vay to one constructed by Sir Robert Peel. That I Minister held office only five months, and when, in t April ...

... the world by the subtlety of his diplomacy, nor con- vulse the Church by the rigidity of his decrees. The calculations of the Whig statesman have been justified by the event. Through the fourteen years of his archiepiscopate Dr Samner has been conspicuously ...

... together with an ambition for distinction at the English bar which about this time powerfully affected the young Scottish Whigs. ScOTCH LAWYERS IN ENGLAND. t The feeling withwhich a Scotbiman now studies for the Englishbar is differeat from the views ...

... :East Ret- ' ford..waa disfranchised for. bribery, and the ques, to, |tion aresp what *t'a tolbe done vith the seats., ,The Whigs pi~pposed thabtthej. Bhoild be, trans . E 'ferred to Mancbhester. The Irod'Duke, however, * '1 .detrnine thtitoefi'anqbide ...

... the House, is the blue ribbon and the garter. Those were aristocratic times when the old Earl of Lauderdale, a broad Scotch Whig, would say, the noble Yerle opposite, vi' the blue ribbon. Lord Sidmoutb, after he had been Speaker, and made a Lord of, ...

... DEATH OF JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES. (ABRIDGED FROM THE NORTHERN WHIG.) A telegram received on Sabbath evening has brought the news of the death, at Torquay, in t Devonshire, of James Sheridan Knowles, the greatest of the dramatists whose writings have graced ...