... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...