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OUR MISCELLANY

... observed that the Princes of Wales are sure to be Whigs, and tarn Tories when they succeed to the otowu, and the example of George IV. is always adduced in point. But in the days of Walpole and Pelham, though Whigs and Tories held, the whole, the same principles ...

with Mr. Solomon Bray, the first town-clerk ef the Birmingham Corporation. At the time the Birmingham Political ..

... the members Lord Grey’s administration. After this, his services being considered valuable, became political agent for the Whigs, and the Reform Club taking him by the hand, he removed to London in 1832, where he practised as soliciter and Parliamentary ...

EXTRACTS FROM “PUITCH” & FUN

... under your feet How delightful the joy of which nobody knows! And the Ihoughta how sublinie, which lie Under the Bote.'' The Whigs they may fancy they govern the State, To the world they may seem to prevail debate} But now la the season the truth to disclose— ...

Efy Court, see

... was a Wh.g, for the Whigs abolished the Test and Acts, the Whigs made Leeds borough, the Mr. Baines an M.P., and the present M.P. for Leeds still retaine that for Lord John Russell which formed part of the political creed of all Whig families the Betorm ...

TEE BELFAST BIOTS

... TEE BELFAST BIOTS. Tho Northern Whig states that, os nearly as can be ascertained, 14S persona received gunshot wounds in the late riots, and it supposed that there are many other oases which have been concealed. Of those reported seven hare died, and ...

TOWN TALK. Bt OVH LOS DON Ctr understand that tee * not hell omdcA re_ eponeibte fine our able coirespontlent't

... life was, of course, like his father, a Tory; and in these days every election in the county of Flint was .coutcst between the Whig Mostyns and tho Tory Glyns. Mr. Gladstone married sister of the present Sir Stephen Glyn, and, of course, helped him with all ...

PARLIAMENTARY jottings

... quoting from return which he hod wrong from the Government: they were Peter Erie, Q.C., a Whig, salary .£1,500; James Hill, Q. 0., Whig, salary, il,200; Rev. E. Jones, Whig, salary £1,200. had nothing to say against these gentlemen to their admitted respectability ...

FROM THE “MORNING STAR.”

... men especially obnoxious to the Liberal majority in the Commons, and to the popular party throughout the country—the one, a Whig sinecurist; the other the very champion aristocratic privilege against the rights -of the people. All technicalities apart ...

BAVARIA

... his public career in the Lower House, voted all occasions* with the Whig party; and, although unfrequent speaker the House of Peers, invariably supported the views and measures of the Whig Governments. On the o! his father, in October, 1839, he succeeded ...

POLITICAL GOSSIP

... refers the decline of the population not to the “three bad harvests,'* bat to “twenty years of almost unbroken Whig role.** The purpose of Whig Cabinets was, ho said, to be thus expressed:—“ Drive human beings away to America, send in cows, and so make ...

AMERICA

... apocryphal. The draft will take place the city of New York on the 10th instant. There will be draft in Boston. The Richmond Whig says the order of the Secretary of War to enrol conscripts between 18 and 45 years of age is unpopular, not odious, among large ...