... classics, became barrister, and between 1820 and 1830 drafted bills for the Home Office, through the patronage of Sir R. Peel. The Whig government employed him in the same capacity. In 1835 he was private secretary to Sir R. Peel, and was appointed Under-Secretary ...

... BELFAST TRADE REPORT. {From the Northern Whig of Saturday.) Almost every department of business has been affected by the brisk prices of money, and by thedulness usual this period the year. More than usual indisposition has been shown to enter upon new ...

... age, has lost his life during period of pleasure and festivity, will be regarded with universal regret in Belfast.— Northern Whig. ...

... and insult that lay at the root of the principle of an establishment. It suits the political exigencies of the Whigs, especially Edinburgh Whigs, to ignore this, but the most elaborate concealment cannot obliterate injustice. It is to Dr Guthrie's honour ...

... ENGLAND DESCRIBED BY THE SOUTH. The Richmond Whig of May thus says :— Cool, wary, and selfish Great Britain has been watching the American war with the complacency of old huckster who sees two youthful rivals destroying each other's stalls and tearing ...

... BELFAST TRADE REPORT. (From the Northern Whig of Saturday.) Our local market during the week has been firm and an advance of 6a. per ton certain qualities has been established. Hour has been in demand at the recent advance of 6d. per cwt. Indian corn ...

... THE TWELFTH OF AUGUST IN LONDON. Writing from London on the Twelfth, tbe correspondent of the Northern Whig says:—ln the course of a tolerably long experience, never saw London so rapidlyemptied as has been during the past fortnight. Up to the prorogation ...

... LATEST AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE. TIIK BOMBARDMENT OF PORT HUDSON. New York, March, Evening. The Richmond Whig the 17th inst. says that the bombardment of Port Hudson commenced at two o'clock on the 14th inst. At twelve o'clock at night a desperate engagement ...

... altogether premature to conclude he is therefore lost to the country. It is eight years now since a certain section of tbe Whig party made something like that mistake, and we have no desire to repeat its blunder. There is life in the old dog yet. We have ...

... he has not the courage put it plainly—What will be the influence, and what the relations of the contemplated union, upon the Whig party in Scotland It is not how will the Union tell upon piety, but how will it tell at the poll booth. Scotch members of ...

... Horse having been letrenched), has been produced at tbe Theatre Lynque, in Paris. The London correspondent of the Northern Whig writes;— The enormous success of ' Bel Demonio ' has been somewhat dearly purchased by Mr Fetcher. whose unwearied exertions ...

... we would much rather not write about. But on these, as on many other subjects, inclination must succumb to duty. A leading Whig journal describes Dunbog as hitherto a quiet aud inconspicuous parish. Population 207.'' We suspect that the eniallness and ...