... WHIG HTS AND MEASURES To the Editor. — In your paper of to-day, I see a letter fre ni Mr. Inspector Hare, referring to what I am •reported to have 6aid last Council meeting. I must inform Mr. Hare what I said was about Scale B?ams, ar.d not Weights and ...

... the authenticity of a catalogue of new peers which includes the Speaker's Dame. otherwise the whole story is credible enough. Whig Governments have never been insensible to the expediency of infusing new blood into tbe House of Lords, aud tbere is obviously ...

... case of the Alexandra; by the intrigues of the Confederate partisans, and the exigency of the Federal Go- vernment. It was a Whig Ministry dealing with Tory partisans; and it suited the Tory Chief to impute that the Government was animated by party hostility ...

... House of Commons have acted. The Whig wethers, which unfortunately have not been very productive — for there have been no statesmen come of them — have been mixed with the political Cotswolds. the Pecl- ites, but the Whig mutton has not been im- proved ...

... describes the Charity Board and its officers as a nest of Whigs, against whom he has received hundreds of complaints from all parts of the country. Of course, in Air. Ferrand's eves every Whig appointment is a job for which he is able to trace or to invent ...

... THE RIOIS IN BKLFAST. (By EUctric Telegraph.) [From the Second Edition of la* Northern Whig.] Belfast, Wednesday. — The riots were renewed this morning in the disturbed districts. Similar scenes to those we have daily described have occurred, but with ...

... mußt rule, and that Liberals could do nothing but op- pose. So long had this been the custom that among tbe whole body of the Whigs there was no official experience. All that their government could boast waß derived from Lord Palmkrston, Lord Gode- bich, ...

... campaign, the number of men joining from furlough and hospitals about com- pensating ior loss in battle and sickness. The Richmond Whig expects much from Hood's laat movement, and describes Sherman's position as that of Burgoyneiu the Revolutionary War. Sherman's ...

... members of the Government will give a silent vote in its favour, while some will absent themselves, and the members for small Whig boroughs will combine with the Conservatives to throw it oat Bat if, as seems probable, the reform question is to be [smothered ...

... —^* Conservative dinner in Somerset the other *J/j chairman, Mr. Way, M.P. for Bath, said:- 1^ are two things for which the Whig, are remarkable^ their greed of office and tenacity of office, asd »« unblushing hypocrisy when oat of office. At H» P'j sent ...

... Disraeli in 1858, and was dissolved in 1850. Sir Robebt Peel's parliament of 13.1, elected to uphold monopoly and turning out tbe Whigs by a majority of 91, immediately began to reform the tariff, let in foreign provisions aad cattle, and tampered with the corn ...

... 20th.— (To Major-General Dix.) —A despatch received fromtieneral Grant gives a tele- gram contained in yesterday's Richmonl Whig, dated ! at t harlottesville, which says that our cavalry entered Sr_o:.ton on Monday, at 8 a.m. Onr forces were at V. avneabcro' ...