... of the principal electors abstained rrom voting. The following is the close of the poll:—Harvey Conservative), 2,311; Lee (Whig), 312. Mr. Dupie will retire ai tne next election, aud to the Hon. Mr. Smith, sou Lord will be assigned the third seat, in ...

... graceful act withdrawing from the field. In fact, a contest was never expected. But in Buckinghamshire, as elsewhere, the Whigs were not so liberally disposed as to admit the hopelessness of their cause ; and, in this case, if they c.uld not afford ...

... | suffered defeats. It it bad not been that Mr, Harvey was elected on Friday, with the consent, if not with the vote?, the Whig magnates of Buckinghamshire, everybody would have been prepared to hear that his principles were preferred those a candidate ...

... equally accessaries. Homer, the chairman of the first bullion committee, was a Whig. Peel, the chairman of the second, was Tory ; but the real leader was Air. Ricardo, who was a Whig and something more ; that is to say, a doctrinaire of the worst class. At ...

... election gave the Whigs majority more overwhelming than ever Pitt had in the palmiest days his power. When Sir Robert Peel took his seat on the opposition benches, he had scarcely a hundred followers. Even the counties mostly sent Whigs this occasion. The ...

... firs V toln the political debility which the Whigs had brought upon themselves. It was soon made sufficiently manifest to both friends and enemies There can be no doubt that this tottering condition of the Whig administration alarmed the Court as well the ...

... Britannicus in agreement upon the facts and opinions advanced by him in his able narration of the political antecedents of the Whigs for the last half century, I could wish for him to afford me a little more insight than I at present possess into the financial ...

... of five ; and, after this, everybody saw that forbearance tbe part their adversaries could give longer life the ministerial Whigs. This Sir Robert must have clearly seen. He accordingly, the 27th of May, moved a resolution which amounted to the expression ...

... repeal of the Corn Law or resigning. If he resigned rather than do this, the Whigs were ready to take the plunge. If proposed and carried the repeal, with the aid the Whigs, sure onco more to break up the Tory party. The fix was complete, whatever may ...

... to attend the burial of tho slain man, and a comrade from the rwimmt officiated the grave. regiment An Unfortunate Husband.—Whig Legislation_ A barrister, commenting in the Times upon the defects in the preseut law divorce, gives the following case from ...

... this administration could last year. How could When all the discordant elements beyond the pale, who agreed nothing else—Whigs, Whig-radicals, Radicals, Peelites, and other indescribables—were sure to join against it. The result justified these sinister ...

... Win. Atherton. Since the week began, the names of two gentlemen have been mentioned as probable candidates on the part of the Whig-Radicals. These gentlemen are Mr. Edward James, Q.C., of the Northern Circuit; and Mr. Wm. Henry Lambton, cousin of the Earl ...