... TO THE EDITOR. SIR, —Your judicious and well-timed remarks on the late Whig job at the War Office have been welcomed with much satisfaction by the civil service generally as well as by the public outside. It certainly argues but little for the credit ...

... of t , family, he had given in his adhesion, but in • r u , l3 days before the Reform Bill the Independent were weak and the Whig families had it i • , t—len - own way. In the agitation which took P.tace on the Reform Bill he banded himself on the le of ...

... soldiers left Indianopolis, , on Tuesday for active service in the field, and five thousand still remain there. The Richmond Whig contains rumours that Hood took Decatur, Alabama, and captured the garrison of 8000 troops, half of whom were coloured, on ...

... merit, which compels men of the world to suggest that if the loftiest honours as a Whig administrator had been accorded to the late Sir GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS the Whigs would have made a disastrous confession of mediocrity. Going a step forward, let us ...

... States, and this will brin g int ° the reserves of Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama, to, oppose Sherman. • The Richmond Whig believes Shern 3an can be so obstructed as to render the of his army highly probable. The .1 1 ;M itirt eted the military ...

... foot ; and if, as the late Duke of BUCKINGHAM observed, we refuse to acknowledge good government anywhere but where there are Whigs in place and a constitutional Opposition, we starld committed to the absurdity of presupposing that English character, English ...

... ministry, would not altogether be inapplicable as th4 r e es s l og the policy of the present day. They are The Tories vow the Whigs are black as night, dream that only they are blest with light. Our politics to both sides so incline (1 .&S to be called the ...

... members might be named in the bill in fair proportion to the strength of existing parties. (Thus, if there be 300 Tories 250 Whigs, 100 Radicals, the first might nominate seven, the second six, and the latter two.) Subsequently, lest all the seats, as vacancies ...

... affair, as I suppose it may be termed, with its prospective results, is so well stated in an editorial article of the Richmond Whig of Saturday last that I have not resisted the temptation of copying it entire, even at the risk of unduly encroaching upon ...