... official appointment. No other conclusion could have been come to by any one who looked either to his family connexion with the Whigs, or to the fact that Reading has been of late a very nursingmother of placemen. likely that although Mr. Lefevee's public services ...

... Government should not be able to retain office, and the silly fear that a peaceful foreign policy will be impossible without a Whig at the Foreign Office frightens no reasonable mind. In the first place, no Government would be suicidal enough to pursue a ...

... government will fall; and the other is, that if this government fall, presided over by the most eminent statesman now living of the whig party, we are likely to see the entire extinction of the at a governing party in the affairs of this country. But whether the ...

... which came on the day appointed for the division was utilised by the Government to disarm an attack so nearly successful. The Whigs, who otherwise would have gone into the lobby against the Government, were frightened into submissiveness by the threat that ...

... Lord Grosvenor's amendment, it might be found in the notice, unparalleled in Parliamentary experience, given last night an ex-Whig. Sir William Hutt will propose that the Franchise Act, though passed, shall not take effect until Bill for the redistribution ...

... &c, of sheep is, however, retained. Floods in Belfast.—Belfast has suffered from a sudden and heavy flood (says the Northern Whig) the low-lying districts of the town, presenting a truly lamentable appearance. Upwards of 100 streets were flooded, some of ...

... in point of fact, boroughs with populations ranging between 8,000 and 10,000, which are almost nomination boroughs for the Whig 6, and 1 only 5 such boroughs represented by Conservatives, The borough of Tavistock, with 476 electors under tne new franchise ...

... notwithstanding all tbe actio ? e °P inions which have been expressed of great em 1 °und it necessary to take under a very whig}. y° recognise in that action the means T ected tne lives d properties of the colonists. ore that some excesses occurred al ...

... lament this, because it appears to me like confession of weakness. appears as if Lord Russell acknowledged to the world that the Whig party, as far as statesmanship is concerned, was nearly worn out. it be so, it must be by their own policy. Destruction of ...

... tottering government which had lost its head and adopted reform as a cry with which to rally its scattered followers. If the Whig party was now driven from office, the penalty would be but retributive justice for their treason to the cause of reform when ...

... million more as the cost supporting large standing army. Adverting to tbe proposition which once enjoyed much the favour of Whig statesmen, that the Roman Catholic priesthood should be maintained out of the State coffers, he showed that, even were it ...

... Directors of the East India Company held on Wednesday, Colonel Sykes, M.P., was elected chairman for the year ensuing. The Northern Whig says that the Queen has made very liberal and large purchases of Irish poplin for the wedding trousseau of the Princess Helena ...