... I SPEECH OF JEFFERSON DA VIS TO THE LEGISLATURE OF MISSISSIPPI. The Richmon7d Whig of January 5 gives the following report of a speech delivered by Jefferson Davis on the 26th of December to the Ieislature of Mississippi, which it takes from a local paper ...

... Virginia has called out the militia in the counties bordering on North Carolina, in order to resist invasion. The Richmond Whig states that the Federal officers captured at Murfreesboro' will be confined until General Butler be given up to the Confede- ...

... recording the politics of ieach member, and a more extended statement has been re- . quired than in the daye when the short words ' whig ' and 3' tory,' ' conservative ' and ' liberal,' sufficed to classify the lhouse. Therefore, in all possible cases, he has ...

... conusellted to take a seat among theni-without office-to afftrd the government C the benefit of his character of conservative whig. gisms, ,f his dignified presence in parliaomeut, of his urbane anut moderating ihnfluence in council, anti of lis experience ...

... been r Ikept in circulation by maaking it treason for I anybody to refuse them. It was proposed, c I too, by the Richmontd Whig, at the outset s |of the war, to prevent their depreciation by c ;hanging everybody who refused to take them at ( ! par. This ...

... local arran ement. Some new blood is wanted at head-quarters, unless the Tories are to walk over the course, and compel the Whigs to beat clever intrigue by enlarging the constituency. REPRESayvATION OF CAMBRtIDGE(FSHIRsE. - The election of a candidate ...

... Department has a despatch wl that the louttanik remained four hours under the enemy's guns without receiving any injury. c The ?? Whig asserts that tme British act steamuer Princess Royal, with a valuable cargo of wvl guns anld powder, svas captured whilst ...

... States froun Captain Maury, in es Europe, were saved from the Princess Royal pre- ie vious to tier capture. is Thle Richmond Whig, of January 31, gives the n following account of this capture l After our form was sent to press on Thursday night a e telegraph ...

... wiser than those which at present existed. But why was that treaty rejected? It was defeated through the .opposition of the whig party in that house. Mr. Addison, ,one of the most distinguished members who ever oat amongbt them, who afterwards was Secretary ...

... and poetic valentine by Lord Mac- aulay, a disussiou on the origin of red coats in the aarily, and of blue and buff as the whig colours, with meany oter curious odd and eids of literary jewelltry, hllichj will not hang together, though ?ael of tlthem ...

... was not ear- h priseid to hear naval officers ait Dveonport protest against a the zoanner in wehich it few high intloential whig- fianillics csntirived to ttunopolioe thle ?? prizes in the navy. Thue at noble lord lied] allud.(ed to the high honour attitchinig ...

... Secretary, and two leaders of the POPE'S Irish 1 brigade, and a Tory literary sharpshooter of high degree, join hands with a Whig Prmis MINISTER and a Member for Marylebone, and Liberals of all shades of red and buff and blue, in a grand de- monstration ...