... the hon. member ought to have remembered that the history of the Whig party for the last 30 years had been that of pledges loosely given and instantaneously broken; in point of fact, a Whig in office was an ugly dog well muzzled. After some remarks from ...

... in 1847, 1848, and 185'4. For two years he was mayor of the city of Norwich, Connecticut. Subsequently he was elected as a whig to the United States Scnate for the term commencing March 4, 1855, and served as a member of the committee on public lands ...

... barley growers instead of the Chinese cultivator, and 'complains that the budget still leaves the financial legislation of the Whigs invidious, partial, and selfish. The .:liorning Star suggests that in place of sweeping away nearly three Million of direct ...

... towards Lynchburg. He is very confident of receiving Lee's surrender, together with the remains of his army. The Richmond Whig, now a Union paper, says that the evacuation of the city had been progressing for a month. The people, however, refused to ...

... opposes the encoura,gwent of unofficial peace missions, and declares that the object of the country is war. The Rich»lond Whig has litttle hope that the North is prepared to grant terms acceptable to the South, and urges vigorous preparatiotts for war ...

... es, and because the Irish Nationalists, who have sulked for six or seven years, have made another unholy compact with the Whigs. THE GREAT JEWELLERY ROBBERY IN MANCHESTER.—The police are still on the alert and working on the information they have received ...

... was returned for Devonport, yesterday, by a majority of 75 votes. Mr. Brassey is a Radical, and replaces Sir H. Buller, a Whig. The proprietors of the Saturday Review denied the competency of the 'Scottish courts to try the action brought against them ...

... Wight, which he appears to have iield without interruption until 1831, when his old constituents, alarmed at his joining the Whig reforming party, and at the prospect of a reform bill, rejected him. It may be convenient here to state that his lordship ...

... of the House has reported upon tho resolutions expressing an unalterable determination to prosecute the war. The Richyzand Whig says that there was no cotton in CharlestOri at tile time of the evacuation. The Richmond papers infer that Sherman is consummating ...

... naturally turned upon the Subject. The clergyman said he thought the Castle was adopting a course calculated to injure the Whigs in popularity, and not provocative of admiration. The gentleman quite agreed with him, and said he thought they were carrying ...

... in Bolton, when he fell between ;hem, injuring his spine so much as to cause his death on Sunday. GOING CIRCUIT.—The (Thincy Whig say that Professor Quinn, of New York, who is out west on a lecture tour, has reached that place direct from St. Paul on skates ...

... History will Confirm' the - declaration in which Sir Robert Peel generously and justly disclaimed either for himself 'or for his Whig competitors the honour of. hh,iring accomplished the Corn-law Reform, afidascribed.the triumph, chiefly to the great English ...