... invading Kentucky with 15,000 men. The Confederate ram which was building Savannah is reported to bs a failure. The Richmond Whig estimates the quantity of cotton destroyed since the commencement of the struggle at from four to six hundred thousand bales ...

... only surviving daughter is married to Henry Robartes, Esq., of Messrs. Robartes, Lubbock, and Co. Sir J. W. D. was a decided Whig in politics, and not long after his accession, right of his wife, to the Dundas estates in Berkshire, was talked of as probable ...

... 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 ...

... Shepherdstown. An engagement is impending. The Confederate General Lee has made preparations to meet the enemy. The Richmond Whig has information that the entire Confederate loss at the battle of Manassas was 5,000, and in all engagements in Maryland from ...

... THE MURDER OF MR. HERDMAN. The Northern Whig gives the following particulars as to the murder of Mr. Herdman :— It appears that yesterday evening Mr. Herdman had invited a few friends to dinner at his residence Cliftonville. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thomson ...

... Butler apoehry pbal. The draft will take place the city of New York on the 10th. There will be no 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, if not odious, ...

... for the borough of Stoke-upon- Trent in the year 1841, and continued to represent it until his death. In politics he was a Whig, and something more. Inheriting some of his father's talent as political economist, he distinguished himself as the author ...

... their father to the grave. His second wife— once celebrated as actress —Miss Elphinstone, survives her husband. The Northern Whig of Belfast says:—For many years Mr. Knowles was a martyr to rheumatism, which aim' st entirely robbed him of the use of Lis ...

... 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 ...

... the ultra section, yet his moderation gained him a more than compensating support from so-called liberal conservatives. The whig party could not have selected a more unexceptionable candidate. Not a word was uttered by his political opponents in depreciation ...

... 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 ...