... AFFAIRS. THE following are extracts from a very sensible letter signed A Ratepayer, which appeared in yester- day's l'orihers Whig Concerning our municipal difficulty, can anyone tell what is to be the end of it? That it should have an end Al seem now ...

... between the session of 1841 and of 1861, and prognosticated for 1862 the same downfall of the Liberal Government which befel its Whig predecessor in 1842. Now, as then, the Liberal party has ex- hausted its prestige and worn out theipatience of the country ...

... Opposition can cal coi shield them. be The Conservatives have gained another great triumph in the County of Oxford; and the Whigs pi have lost another of those luke-warm supporters who, in while professing to be Independent with a tendency se in favor of ...

... cannot be remembered to the credit of the Ministry; and many a voter, when asked to give his vote for the Whig candi- date, replies that the Whigs threw out a Govern. ment that was acting with zeal and honesty, and that was giving the country a good Reform ...

... should accept office under them ; for there can be little doubt, if the Con- servatives unite with the moderate Liberals and Whigs, they can ignominiously defeat the Ultra- montane candidate. The reference to Sir Robert Peel in the manifesto is adroit as ...

... office ere he gave ample evidence that, so far as he is concerned, go- vernment in Ireland will be carried on, not after the old Whig fashion of disgraceful concessions . and convenient compromises, but with honesty of ipurpose and a fearless determination ...

... are right. But h they have no hearty sympathy even from their friends, and they meet with resolute opposition !,both from the Whig and Conservative benches. y :.Accordingly, when their minute measures of Re. form are brought in, they will be treated precisely ...

... offer his committee even a glass of wine. To this the wags at the other side respond that they never ex- pected anything from a Whig but whine and water! So much for eathetical purity of election. ...

... Observer. The Sun, evening paper, which, for many H. I of years enjoyed a large circulation as one, of the organs of the a the Whig party, is advertised for sale. Of late years, clse in proportion as the sun of 'Whiggery declined, the Men p. influence of ...

... was the death of the ns uin- ?? Tyler; but in this country i~iths excited Ltrap very little interest. He was chosen by the Whig ind a party as colleague or, Vice-President with General trap, Harrison; but, when the genes-al died and Tyler took at it, ...

... suggest to him, however, the utter fruitlessness th( of anay attempts upon Conservative seats. When ( a vacancy occurs in some Whig borougb, there M is no reason why he should not seek to fill it, of and, for a Liberal constituecy, he would be an admirable ...

... Miorning. J( f tle Exchange is nominal, but tending downwards. cited Bankers' bills, 113; gold, 3 to 4 per cent. premium. Whig Fears of European intervention in American affairs a neral caused great excitement in the stock market this Cl took morning ...