... Psurostt, 9*7. the greatest excitement prevails respecting the election. has taken place to. formidable extent. The yartAari Whig says that the houses the snpportorr of the Liberal candidate, Barboar, were creaked mob. Conservative papers, however, accuse ...

... LATEST NEWS. AMERICA. New York. March 19 (Evening)— The Richmond Whig, of the 17th instant, says that the bombardmeut of Port Hudson commenced at two o'clock on the 14th instant. twelve o'clock night a desperate engagement occurred, the Federals attempt ...

... little borough Rigate the succession Monson, the late member, to the peerage. Two candidates contested the seat —Mr Levesen a Whig, and Mr Wilkinson, a Radical, formerly defeated the same constituency. The latter declared that was safe win, but waßbeaten ...

... published in journals notoriously influenced the Premier, evidencing something like a break-up of the alliance between the two Whig leaders. Moreover, if Sari Russell fancies the Ministerial craft in danger, know of old that is the first man to desert. On ...

... no wish to deny his lordship's conviviality. But he did not forget more important matters. He did not forget that he was a Whig leader, and that he was in that part of her Majesty's dominions which is the. most whiggish of all the three portions of the ...

... apparent necessity of recruiting and strengthening the languishing Whig interest in the House of Commons. It was hoped by enlightened Whigs, that the Reform Bill had put the question of Whig supremacy for ever beyond doubt. By and by, however, it began to ...

... candidate for I the particular duties ought to be the sole consideration. We should ask ourselves not whether Mr. A. or Mr. B. is a whig or a tory, a churchman or a dissenter, but whether he is the man to whom taking his whole character together we should like ...

... vying with each other in bidding for political support from the Roman Catholics, and consequently the leading print 3 of both Whigs and Tories have been letting the matter pass tub tilentis, while the Romanists have not been slow to avail themselves of the ...

... We speak of course only of the law : nothing, in fact, could have been more contrary to the whole political feeling of the Whig Government and party of that day than make such nomination. It was the time when Scottish children were baptised in the woods ...

... cattle guard Buford's division within a mile of Warrentown Junction. Charleston advices are down to the 31st nit. The Richmond Whig of that date states that the bombardment of Fort Sumter, on the 29tb, was the heaviest that has yet taken place. From sundown ...

... like the air breathe! If we have it not, we die. Such were the terms of a favourite toast, especially among, the departed Whigs, in the former half of the present century. The truth which it embodies is now too generally recognized to need such formal ...

... history the last half century, we find the name of Lord Lansdowne actively associated with all the leading measures of the Whig party; such as the abolition of slavery, which he first advocated in 1807, and again by specific motion in 1814 and 1821. He ...