... expected. He reviewed the circumstances under which the Government had been changed, and asked if he was wrong in saying that the Whigs had got into office under false pretences. Having argued that an extension of the franchise was necessary, he went on to justify ...

... those thet P founded on common humanity and justice, oo( j rium Ph of which we owe to the courage and practical sens e of the Whig ; before the example of a Court, 8 mane ' and beneficent; the attitude of the British a.r-ißt C . es has undergone a noble ...

... met with serious disasters; but the heart people resolved to free, disasters stimulate to increased exertion. The Richmond Whig thinks that the Jefferson Davis government is the most lamentable failure in history, and says the helm should be surrendered ...

... sum in painting and other repairs to their church, which was one of the finest in connexion with the Assembly.— Northern Whig. Attempt Burn a Workhouse.—An attempt has been made some paupers to burn the Workhouse of Rathkeall, county Limerick. Only ...

... Lieutenant Rintoul is severely reprimanded for keeping diary of private conversations. The Murder at Belfast.—The Northern Whig gives the following additional details relative to the murder of Mr. Herdman, briefly reported in last week's Mercury: —On ...

... York Tribune states that Messrs. Zachary and Rogers have been released from Fort Lafayette. New York, Jan. 11.—The Richmond Whig, expressing the hopes of the Secessionists, referring to Mr. Seward's despatch upon the Trent question, thinks England will ...

... Savannah is reported to be failure. The Chippewa Indians have revolted in Minnesota. More troubles are expected. The Richmond Whig estimates the quantity of cotton destroyed since the commencement of the struggle at from four to six hundred thousand bales ...

... lowered by the laudanum. Mr. Fox was nervous before speaking; so, I have heard, was Lord Plunket. A distinguished member of the Whig party, now no more, and who was himself one of the most sensitive of men and one of the most attractive of orators, told me ...

... resolutions as a standing proposition for peace and the settlement of the war. The Destruction of the Arkansas.—The Richmond Whig, of the 9th August, says— The Confederate sloop of war Arkansas, Lieut. H. K. Steven, of South Carolina, commanding, left ...

... the Magistrates of Wiltshire did, by throwing out the measure. The injury was very obvious when the proposal emanated from a'Whig Government, and he would ask, who could point to anything done by a VV Government that had benefitted the farmer ? The mercantile ...

... Pigott Conant was educated at Eton, where he was the intimate friend of the late Lord Holland, aud other eminent men of the old Whig school. He there imbibed the Liberal political views which he consistently maintained throughout a very protracted life. By ...

... the House of Lords. During the time he was the Lower House, and subsequently the House of Lords, he uniformly supported the Whig Governments. In Scotland he was a warm supporter of the Free Church, and was deservedly popular. From September, 1848, to March ...