... highest masonic rank which can be conferred upon a commoner, viz : that of Senior Grand Warden of England. In politics, he was a Whig of the old school ; but he never allowed party to be the cause of personal recrimination. He was a zealous supporter of the ...

... hon. gentle- man then proceeded to censure the misgovernment to which Ireland had been systematically subjected under the Whigs, and specially condemned the legal appoint- ments which had been made by Lord Chancellor Brady. Sir R. Peel was sorry that ...

... to the effect that the policy of the present government, begun thirty years ago by the Prime Minister, and enforced by every Whig government, had led to constant wars, which have culminated in the burning of Kagosima, and the massacres at Fee Chow ; that ...

... erection of a church and schools at Brompton. Mr. Ferr and narrated incidents in Devonport in sup- port of a charge against the Whig Boards of Admiralty, of ?? tyranny exercised over electors in the dock- yards. To substantiate his charge, he read extracts ...

... gave up his leisure energies to poUtics, and their transatlantic consequences— the DueUo, with revolvers. He was, it seems, a Whig of the old schooL although, I should think, not altogether answering to Lord John Russell's, conception of that character ; ...

... g orders of the then Home Secretary that Mr. Disraeli taunted Sir Robert Peel and his col- leagues with having found the Whigs bathing, and run away with their clothes. Here, then, at the period we have referred to, was a man who worked by political ...

... hearing screams and groans issuing from the house. An inquest will be held. Raffling »or 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 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 ...

... and other Tory chiefs in the days of rampant Pittism, are now careful to call them- selves Conservatives. In like manner the Whigs, when the term became distasteful, merged into Liberals— at the same time refusing to their oppo- nents the shred of protection ...

... avowed opinions of such an extreme kind, regarding the suffrage and the right of every man to exercise it ; whilst by the pure Whigs, and the general supporters of the present Administration, the movement of the refractory Chancellor is regarded with alarm ...

... of the crop, which, on the 24th ult., measured fifteen inches, and appears to be of the most promising character.— Northern Whig. The Conquest or thb South Hopeless.— We are convinced that neither Mr. Lincoln nor any man of his cabinet believes that, under ...

... the Board of Charity Commissioners. At considerable length the hon. member denounced the Board as a gross Whig job, and its office as a perfect Whig snuggery. 1 1 not only entailed a considerable charge upon the country, but, owing to the reckless and ...