... his supporters, which carefully avoided exciting topics, or allusion to matters which were worth listening to. Mr. Masset is Whig placeman, and has been nothing else from the beginning. He got possession of his seat as avowed enemy of the Radicals, and ...

... did not know it before, that the Queen’s prerogative of mercy does not belong her, but for the time being to a Northumberland Whig baronet, who significantly resented their application to Windsor. The womanly heart of the Queen, the hour of gratitude for ...

... yet the intrignes which be can bring to bear upon the perplexed and worn out old man are really bending all those haughty Whigs to his will. Lord Stanley’s position is more peculiar, but it is less enviable, because cannot said to have won it for bimself ...

... practical insight into men and things soon made him the most influential man in his State. He became the repeated leader of the Whig party, and canvassed the State as stump speaker in the time of Henry Clay, and in 1846 was elected representative to Congress ...

... demur to the exaggerated opinion of his influence expressed by the Saturday Reviewer. He describes him as bending the haughty Whigs to his will,” as exercising ten times more influence upon the course of current events than the greatest ministerialist orators ...

... consistent in my public career than l ...

... his position with the Radicals, and with the country. The Tories may think it more desirable to try their strength with the Whigs in a fair fall next time, and there can be no oeace until they have done so. Whatever be the ground of battle selected, an ...

... police were acting upon general orders. Their promptitude showed their attention had been specially directed to them. This is Whig liberty. It is so far an improvement upon the times of Castlereagh and the Tories that the people are now beaten and driven ...

... He tells us he is a Conservative, but as Richard Oastler used to say, he hated a Conservative, for they were worse than the Whigs, as they would conserve all bad laws well as good ones, whilst a good old Tory would live and let live. He says that he has ...

... ” one of the lads put his hand into the mouth of a cannon and discovered a bird’s nest containing five eggs. The Richmond \Whig of Miy says The country is full of wheat, while we think the product in Georgia is likely to be double what it was in 1803 ...

... Tne negro troops stormed the Confederate ports. Butler’s corps had not reached Petersburg before the assault. The Richmond Whig, of the 15th instant, repot ts the defeat of General Sheridan by General Fitzhugh Lee and Hampton, with hea?y loss. No particulars ...

... avowed Tory, through the refusal of the more earnest Liberals to bestir themselves for the sake of a superfine and supercilious Whig, and more will follow their example. MEETING OF THE ASHTON BOARD GUARDIANS. The usual weekly meeting of this board was held ...