... the right and duty of the masses of the people to take a share in the legislation and government of the country. One class of Whig aud Tory reasoners assert that there is no need for extending the franchise, hecause the people have enough to eat and drink ...

... current from the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh. The proceedings were under the management of Mr Symington, of Glasgow.— Northern Whig. Fatal Accident to Huntsman.—On Tuesday evening last week, J. Margan, well known as Jack the huntsman, of tbe Llanymynech ...

... lecturers through the country ; a few years afterwards it raised a quarter of a million. Gradually the more advanced of the Whigs gave their adhesion, and session after session the Parliamentary majority against Villiers became small by degrees and b ...

... Johnston was expecting Sherman to moveon Weldon There were rumours that the latter had occupied Raleigh. , . , , The Richmond Whig states that an informal meeting had been held the members of the \irg,n.a Legislature who remained Richmond, to consider the ...

... place not only in Springfield, but in the State. He took much interest in politics, and attached himself strongly to the Whig party ; and his rough but direct eloquence was of great service to rrts party. In 1844 —having in the interval sat ...

... support a Government not willing to fulfil the pledges of 1859 and 1860. When it question of reform or expulsion from office, the Whig statesmen will decide in favour reform. This the only effectual mode of dealing with them, nnd I hope it will be adopted. ...

... Exchequer, epigrammic in character, and of great value in these days when thoughtless people ask what is the difference betsveen Whig and Tory, and Conservative .•' Liberal principles denned the principle of trust in the people, only relieved by prudence ...

... ‘and . Their opponents are Messrs M‘Laren Wer, who come forward to rescue Edinburgh from bei ng “a nomination bargh of the Whig Go- and boast a good deal of their own inde- pendence. We are not concerned to defend Mr Black's consistency, or to discuss ...

... of Mr Disraeli. But what can be expected when we look to the political atmosphere in the metropolis. There we find that the Whig Committee, forgetful of the immense change in the constituency during the last few years, dog matically resolve to effectually ...

... ESCAPE OF RUNGE. John Herny Runge, a German, one of the passengers carried away by Coxwell's balloon, sends to the Northern Whig a statement of the actual facts of the occurrence. Mr Runge writes : —Before I proceed with the account, I must say, in justice ...

... Companies.—Referring to the recent announcement, that the uniform shilling rate for telegrams to be abandoned, the Northern Whig says : —This is exactly what we anticipated. These telegraph companies have now attained to such position monopoly that, some ...

... refuse to vote at all, leaving the pure Whigs to fight it out single-handed with the Tories. Had this course been adopted, Reform would not have been betrayed and abandoned as it has been in the last Parliament. The Whig Government could never have stood against ...