... 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 ...

... period, possibly short, which may yet be allotted to us on earth. (VROM THE MORNING POST.) The Duke of Hamilton's father was a Whig of the old school, and probably one of the haughtiest .men of his day. He cherished an idea that he was the legitimate king ...

... owner who shall have invested fewest of his thou- sands in iron ships. TRADE IN ULSEP..-The commercial repaor of the Northsern Whig says :-Comp laints are still loud relative to the very unsatisfactory statc of business in the rural districts. Commerc~ial ...

... occasion. Just let the election be over successfully for Mr Black, and the old ring of defiance everybody and everything except Whig and Tory interests may be heard once more. We cannot doubt that the uncertainties of a looming election must press rather heavily ...

... the public. He made his first appearance Leeds, on which occasion he delivered speech that took the breath from our Tory and Whig cotemporaries, and delighted all the journals and men whom Liberalism is a reality. His speech was as liberal as any one could ...

... h on the Reform question was not unfoundedthat we had more faith in the head of the Tories than we had in the head of the Whigs. The advanced Liberals took their own course ; they saw Lord John Russell so impatient about a broad and comprehensive measure ...

... receive official re- wards, and dire rapidly pushed upwards in their profession. Devotedly attached to his party-to the old Whig branch of the Liberals-they had not the grace to bestow upon him the i-eward to which he was entitled by his services to the ...