... is rumoured by their neighbours that they had made enemies in consequence of exacting a high rate of interest. The Northern Whig says it is difficult to arrive at any cause for the perpetration of the horrid crime. The police have been in active and diligent ...

... Reform. Under tbe pressure of the Liberal party there is greater chance of getting a Reform Bill from Lord Derby than from a Whig Administration. A Conservative move towards Downing-street is on the cards, and my impression is tbat a beginning will soon ...

... THE LIBERAL PARTY. The Times, in a leader on the loss of a seat in South Wilts to the Liberal party, by the retirement of the Whig candidate, remarks that there is an unity and energy about the Opposition which contrasts favourably with the small dislikes ...

... rather inferred that he would not reject the offer. He believed Mr. Oldfield was a Tory ; they, however, did not come there as Whigs and Tories, but to elect good and eligible men to fill high and important offices, first as aldermen, and afterwards as chief ...

... town since Saturday, that the plan of opposition to the budget had been arranged between hfm, a peer, and a di-contented old Whig. The title of the peer was not giv.n at first, but everybody knew it could only mean Lord Monteagle, who, feeling disappointed ...

... again disturb tbe social and political arrangements of the country. He looked with deep regret and concern upon that once great Whig party, which while it was honoured by the names of such men ss Grey, Brougham, and Macintosh, he deemed it an honour to belong ...

... DEATH OP THB DUKE OP BBDPORD, K.G. me patrician section of tfae Whig party has lotto* of ite highest hereditary magnates, whose influence ** great because he was at the head of the House of Russell- Francis Russell, seventh Duke of Bedford, Marqni o ...

... tbe Gal way subsidy. From one end of Ireland to the other the Galway contrast was looked upon as tbe fulfil- ment of the eld Whig cry, Justice to Ireland, and accordingly there is no measure to the indignation wiih which all ranks and parties there are ...

... made his great forensic speech for the d. fendant in the cele- brated case of Norton v. Lord Melbourne. Ou the return of the Whig party to office, in June, 1846, after tbe resignation ot tbe late Sir Robert Peel, Lord Campbell joined the cabinet and waa ...

... that the sole function of the House of Commons was to grant the supplies presented by the Government, and then break up. Whigs and Conservatives entirely agree npon this point. Lord Hotham and Mr. Ball are as resolute in favour of having the supplies ...

... shown that he caii rise superior to those narrow and cliquish considerations, which have too long been the great bane of the Whigs. As Sir Robert Peel remarked to the electors of Tarn- worth, on Wednesday, when referring to his own appointment, as well as ...

... untrue, the loss being £2000, and not 2000 persons. The following account of the battle of Bull's Run is from the Richmond Whig of the 2nd inst. : — The battle of Bull's Run opened by throwing out heavy artillery and small field pieces at eight o'clock ...