... which appear to indicate that her Majesty’s Ministers were meditating a coup de main. Whig candidates are slyly feeling their way in certain constituencies where Whig has not dared to show his face for many years before, and where success could only be ...

... In doing so mad*» a virulent personal attack upon the commissioners, and denounced the Board as nothing more than a piece of Whig jobbery.—Atter some remarks from Mr Morrison and Mr Powell, Bruce said the Government could not accede to a reso.u-tion moved ...

... Confederates. The negro troops stormed the Confederate forts. Butler had not reached Petersburg before the assault. The Richmond Whig of the 15th inst. reports the defeat of General Sheridan by Generals Fitdoe and Hampton with heavy loss. No particulars received ...

... injured by scalding. A number of men on the other gunboats ware killed or wounded. The Albermarle was uninjured. The Richmond Whig of the 9th publishes despatches to Secretary Maliory, of the Confederate Navy Department, announcing the destruction the Florida ...

... would again bask in the sunshine of a Tory Administration, the days of chivalry would return, all the evils resulting from Whig rule arould disappear, we should in fact have the beau ideal of Government which would make itself honoured and respected at ...

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

... by the marriage of one of its chief dignitaries with divorcee. The bridegroom is a dignatary belonging to one of the famous Whig families which generally divide among themselves the patronage of all departments of church and state. He has long been looking ...

... pointed out on a previous occasion the effect it had upon the various political Parties in the country,—how Tories and moribund Whigs denounced it, and how eagerly genuine Poformen seized upon it as expression of °pinlon the foremost orator and statesman of ...

... abstract controversy, which is called, wo believe, the “long prayer.” -Spectator, Raffling for a Young Woman in America.— The Troy Whig says that several young men, fascinated with the personal charms of a female attached to the sanitary fair now being held in ...

... less difference in principle between the Whigs and the Liberal Conservatives than between the Whigs and the Radicals. So long as the lead of what is vaguely called the Liberal party was in the hands of a Whig, it was possible to maintain the traditional ...

... built under his Act. In 1850 a Bill was brought in for creating independent parishes. this Bill, originally introduced, the Whig Government of the day had inserted a clause that the churches already built or to be built under recent Church-Building Acts ...

... THE LAST HOURS OF PRINCE ALBERT. There has reached us (Northern Whig) from abroad a most interesting extract from letter which was written member of tha Queen’s household, shortly after the death of Prince Albert. The extremely confidential position which ...