... TOPICS OF THE WEEK. LORD DESPOTISM. ihere lives a great magnate in Wales, Whom people Lore Llanover A Whig nobleman be Of illustrious degree, Who once bore tha surname o: Hall Ben Hall, Whose conceit of himself is not su.all. His son-in-law used to be ...

... the Contiscation Act in Missouri. The property liable to confiscation is estimated at fifty million dollars. The Iticlonond Whig says that the expenses of the Confederate Government since the commencement of the war to August of this year amount to 347 ...

... of America. While Garibaldi declares his sympathy with the North, Mr. Mitchell gives his adhesion to the South. We (Norther Whig) could not desire better testimony to the intrinsic merite of the controversy between the two Powers. Mr. Cobden has addressed ...

... estimated at 150.223,t00 kilogrammes, and the quantity is now much greater. A Riot Prevented—A correspondent of the Northern Whig, writing from Drogheda, says :— For the past week this ;own has been extecsively placarded with the announcement that the ...

... Grey. Gladstone and Smierset Never a glimmer set Downing-street's seen for a very long day : Their characteristic a stolid Whig rust is— How Palmerston puzzles those averaga Fusties! C.— Thee Pecsd. LAND TRANSFER Acr.—lt is impossible to exaggerate the ...

... r sou.e time been reported as in a weak state, died on evening at Liusanne, in Swi t zerland, in his liis toril-ihip was a Whig in politics, and was f r ,orne time Lord Chamberlain. He was also Lord- Lit teenant of Argyll-hire. In 1843 he entertained ...