... for the county of Selkirk took place at Selkirk Tuesday, when Lord Henry Scott (Conservative), and the Hon. William Napier (Whig-Radical), were duly proposed and seconded. The polling took place yesterday, and at the close the numbers were for Lord Henry ...

... amid continued interruption. Long before eight o'clock in the morning of the polling day, the indefatigable canvassers of the Whig party, most of them appearing as though they had not been bed for several nights, were seen hastening from place to place cabs ...

... with them ; and that, whether they could, or could not, have been avoided, they one aud all overtook us, under the auspices of Whig Radical Administrations. The next time he desires to hold up to public indignation tbe people who engage in war or in di ...

... Henry Scott, Conservative, over Mr. Napier, the Whig- Radical. To a certain extent, this is a Conservative gain, because although the former member professed Conservatism, he invariably voted with the Whigs and Radicals on questions of moment. Another arrival ...

... which otherwise it might not attain. Selkirk election has given another warning of the dangerous edged tools with wliich the Whigs and Liberals work in carving their way to official employment. As at Tynemouth, London, and elsewhere, mob violence freely ...

... indecent, if not absolutely unconstitutional, to perpetuate the system which has converted tbe Metropolis of the Empire into a Whig close borough, and to make, as far as possible, Mr. Wood's return secure. they bad confined themselves to fair fighting, we ...

... Law Lords, than upon the unsupported, however peremptory, dictum, of a newly fledged Lord Chancellor. Lord Cranworth is a Whig to the backbone ; and Lord Wensleydale, a peer of Lord Palmerston's creation, has always been a steady political supporter ...

... combination, which might, perchance, have better passed muster with the public than his late miserable shuffling of tbe old Whig pack, if the acceptance of office had not involved the unpleasant necessity of re-election. But he was hampered on every hand ...

... Council, Lord Granville left town for the Isle of Wight. The New Lord Chancellor.—Tbe Spectator, a Whig organ, has the following respecting the new Whig Lord Chancellor : The Chancery Courts are teeming with stories of the unseemly hauteur displayed by ...

... standing watchword, as opposed to the bureaucracy, centralism, and the coerced rigid uniformity which is the l>eau-ideal of the Whig faction, and realized with full development in the present French regime. The liberty of Liberalism is that of America and ...

... reaction has set in strongly and irresistibly, in relation both to the State and to the Church, and that the days and hours of Whig- Radical misgovernment are already numbered. ...

... THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. The prescription of a deceased Whig Duke, for converting a pinch of curry into a poor man's dinner, sinks into insignificance by the side Lord Palmerston's ingenuity, manufacturing a presentable Royal Speech out of the ...