... as a special 'pleader for some years, and in 1852 became a Queen's Counsel and Bencher. The same year he was returned in the Whig interest for Durham (city), in con- junction with Mr. Granger. In 1857 he was elected at the head of the poll, having for his ...

... the mas- sacre at Soochow. These wars, according to the terms of the motion, have resulted from the settled policy of the Whigs, in yielding to tbe pressure of merchants anxious for the extension of their trade. After s short -statement from Sir C. Wood ...

... the royal speech to the distress in Ireland, and denounced what he called the systematic mis- government ol Ireland by tbe Whigs.— Sir Kobf.rt Peel controverted s-nne of Mr. Whiteside's -t„te- ments about the c ndilion of ihe Irish labouring classes, and ...

... honour), General Grey, General Seymour, Sir C. B. Phipps, Dr. Holzmanu, and Mr. Buff. Mr. Edmund Yate6, writing to the Belfast Whig, says : — This year there were posted in London,gfor despatch to the provinces, on the evening preceding Valentine's Day ...

... w WHIG ECONOMY. *? Whig economy, we need not say, is a bye word of long standing, but tbere is a proveib of older date still which will perhaps more accurately apply to the particular subject about which we feel called upon to venture a few words of ...

... signs of unsoundness of mind in 1860. Her cousin, a Mr. Roe, was the peti- tioner. Edmund Yates, in a letter to the Northern Whig, says : — Whispers flit round club -tables that tbe highest legal dignitary of tho land is likely to stand as defendant In ...

... Ferrand comnlained of tbe tyranny systema- . t'cally practised by Whig governments iv the royal . dockyards, and the practices which they had always , adopted to strengthen the Whig interest in dockyards I boroughs. After a few words trom Mr. Dalglish ...

... has suceeded in doing to admiration. It is an establish- ed saying that the Whigs build walls to knock their hoses against. Clearly, Mr. Gladstone has served a successful Whig apprenticeship, or he never would go gratuitously have sought to bring the ...

... and deed, had impressed aa with a conviction tbat ha was the man for the situation, and that, though nominally tbe hand of a Whig government, ha wan to all intents and parpaean coassrvative aanass satis s af all aw much lavad institutions and beyond all ...

... ma'am,'' replied Bridget, he has been married once. Wooden Weddings are getting to be the order ot the day. The Qui. icy Whig notices one which took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Nichols, ia that city, a few days ago. The gifts were ...

... tbat tbey would oot vote for him— because he woald not turn Lord Pal- marston out; some of his friends said he was agoodold Whig. He might be, for he had been on every side of politics. He had the art to toro rouod and roaod like a weathercock, aad he ...

... of his lord-hip's opinions be approves, because Lord Palmerston has been a high Tory, he has been a moderate Whig, he has been a strong Whig, and is now a strong Con- servative—(cheers, groans, and hisses,)— and what he will die I really do not know. ...