... the authenticity of a catalogue of new peers which includes the Speaker's name. Otherwise the whole story is credible enough. Whig governments have never been insensible to the expediency of infusing new blood into the House of Lords, f and there is obviously ...

... in it, has been turned into a policy of compromise, trick, and dodge, until Whig and Conservative are almost convertible terms. Mr. Disbaeli told us some time ago that the Whigs were to have no longer a monopoly of political progress ; and Lord Paxmebston ...

... an early demon- stration against General Lee, who, they say, was never so well prepared to receive him as now. The Richmond Whig thinks General Grant has sent troops to co-operate with General Sherman. The Richmond papers state that a portion of General ...

... position. He was born a Whig ; he belonged to the ranks of the popular party; and he filled his post with a dis- tinguished grace. He did his best to be a good, honest, open-hearted Whig, according to the fashion of his time— a Whig who, with aristocractic ...

... Tories as a useful means of protecting Tory tenants or Tory voters fremi the oppressive anel undne influences of Whig Landlords anil Whig Employers. In fact, there is no more of principle, liberal or otherwise, in the Ballot than there is in the Cabs ...

... Confederate Secretary of State does not see the necessity, and does not approve of the policy of arming the slaves. The Richmond Whig opposes President Davis' propo- sition to emancipate the slaves after service. Butler, in a speech which he made at the Fi ...

... negro troops stormed' the Confede- rate forts. General Butler had not reached Petersburg before the assault. —The Richmond Whig of the 15th inst. reports the defeat of General Sheridan by Generals Fitz- hugh Lee and Hampson, with heavy loss. No particulars ...

... in the arrival of the Italian Liberator, and the spirit his presence everywhere evoked, a renewed lease of office for the Whigs if they used the lucky opportunity well. But by the suspicious way in which Garibaldi was hustled out of the country, — and ...

... wonderful instinct for nosing out jobs, and a wonderful steady and masterly hand in applying the lash to the backs of offending Whigs and dishonest Radicals. A few days ago the Standard startled its readers with one of the most extraordinary announce- ments ...

... friends. Treatment which we outsielers think Mr. Cobelen would not soon forget. This brings me to the last election, when the Whig party brought their tradesman forward again, ?? the other, the advanced Liberal party, returneel to their former inconsistency ...

... being only thirteen years and ten months. She was employed in a cotton mill in the neighbourhood of Manchester. The Northern Whig announces tbat the government has at length determined on issuing a special commission of inquiry into the cause of the late ...

... party to which he is yet attached, and by joining the Liberals, or by seeking to create a new party which Bhall act outside of Whig and Tory tradi- tions, is quite another question — and one which Lord Stanley, for his own position as a politician, should ...