... The Standard. The victory, such as it is, does prove, we freely ad- mit, one superiority which the Whigs possess over the Conservatives. We do not dispute that in all those arts by which foolish members may be seduced upon a critical occasion our opponents ...

... Union troops were pushed back to Chancel- lorsville. The dispatch winds up by saying, Everything looks well. The Richmond Whig of the 7th says:- Up to a late hour on the night of the 6th, no fighting had taken place on the Peninsula. The movement of ...

... most curious illustrations of the well- known aphorism, There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, says the Northern Whig, occurred, we are informed, in Antrim, a day or two ago. It would appear, that at an early hour of the morning, a dash- ing ...

... r-ms from a retu™ which he had wrung om tiie ^ernment: they were Peter Erie, Q.C., a Whig, salary = £ 1,500; James Hill, Q.C., Whig, salary, 11,200; Rev. R. Jones, Whig, salary =21,200. He had nothing to say against these gentlemen as to their admitted ...

... is not. PREPARATIONS are being made at Kidderminster for a contested election whenever a vacancy occurs. Mr. Lukewhite, the Whig member, is expected to visit his constituents next week, and the Conservatives have had a private meeting, at which they have ...

... whole, no serious loss ha.s yet occurred in consequence of the unusually dry weather of the past six weeks.—Belfast Northern Whig. ...

... his family, he had given in his adhesion, but in the days before the Reform Bill the Independent Liberals were weak and the Whig families had it all their own way. In the agitation which took place on the Reform Bill he banded himself on the side of Earl ...

... known, the effect produced by the Ministerial announce- ment was very striking. It mattered not whether one conversed with Whig, Tory, or Radical, the burthen of the talk was the same-the certainty of a dissolution of Parlia- ment, and whether a week ...

... probable adoption of an anti-slavery oon- stitution.. Dispatches from Augustia, Georgia, of the 8th inst., to the Richmond Whig, report the capture of Eome by the Confederates, with over 3,000 prisoners. The British American Conference at Quebec have ...

... Eingstone, near that city, and various damage has been sustained by timber in different parts of the county. The Belfast Northern Whig of Friday says :— This morning, about eleven o'clock, a farmer belonging to Saintfield, in the county Down, when standing ...

... to the world for the last twenty years, in supplement both to the fictions- of Scott and to the persevering criticism of the Whig Review. Or, going through Great King-street, late at night, and passing one particular house there, you might know that within ...

... A VICTIM TO CURIOSITY.—TALE OF A LAY FIGURE. Oar contemporary the Belfast Northern Whig gives the following account of a singular alarm which was raised last week that a murder had been perpe- trated in a house in a respectable locality in Belfast, and ...