... capture of Messrs Mason and Slidell, which it declared was an act not in accor- dance with international law. The Richmond Whig,, alluding to the sinking of the stone fleet off Charleston says-:-' The North has taken the first step towards making the ...

... being no one of precisely the same curiously pied and changeful hue to succeed him, many sensible and sincere men amongst the Whig section would have been better pleased had no contest been undertaken this time, but preparation made for a firm trial of strength ...

... long as we can remember. In the worst days of Repeal agitation every member of the family of White who offered himself as a Whig candidate was certain to be returned. The father and uncles of the luckless Lord of the Treasury were personally and, though ...

... expressed with such fervour and openness as when he was an independent member of the Senate chamber. Like the leaders of the old Whig party in 1848, as described in the Biglow Papers by Mr Birdo- fredum Sawin, when there appeared to be a chance of getting place ...

... close to the spot. The jury returned a verdict of Wilful murder against WILLIAM HERDMAN, cousin of the deceased. The Noethern Whig says: The only cause which can be assigned for the perpetration of this awful crime, is that the deceased had been the cause ...

... happened to be in Paris with both about forty-five years since, in the good old Tory times, and heard Sir M. Wood, who was a Whig, at the table of Sir Claudius Hunter, a violent Tory, charge him with this soft impeachment, which the latter did not deny ...

... majority. The Conservatives are now with the honourablo exceptions of Mr Henley and Lo d Stanley, almost all innovators, while the Whig staff and Radicals are fighting an up-hill conservative battle. DIRECT COMLMUNICATION BETWEEN IRERAN AND AMERICA. Mr Scully ...

... faith in the Mosaic cosmogony with acceptance of the teachings of geology. The Tories made Dr Sumner Bishop of Chester; the Whigs made him, when he was on the threshold of three score and ten, Archbishop of Canterbury. Gentle of character and blameless ...

... Copeland, whose personal influence as an employer is naturally great, having been more than once returned along with the late Whig member, although sometimes beaten by a second Liberal candidate. Since the creation of the borough in 1832 it has, indeed, ...

... gladness was the union which prevailed among good men in support ing the State and National Government, forgetting that they were Whigs or Democrats; and not less cheering was it in the generous devotion which all of foreign birth have offered to their adoptcd ...

... the Confederate army and Richmond. The Richmonod Whig says tdat if electioneering assertions could be believed, the result of the Northern elections would be equal to decla- rations of peace; but the Whig adds, we place no confidence in these assertions ...

... command or take the consequences, and few of them are so boldly conscientious as to do that, as Southampton shows us, with its Whigs of yesterday, Tories of to- day, and anything else that it may please the Peninsular and Oriental Com- pany to-morrow. There ...