... in interesting account, A Straggler from a Forgotten Fight.” Tho Riglvt Hon. G. W. Russell writes on Queen Victoria and tho Whigs, and tho All Rod Route is discussed tho Hon. W. P. Reeves. —Fortnightly : Sydney Brooks writes on tho voyage of tho American ...

... THE WEST HIGHLANDS. THE PRISONER. By ERNEST DAWSON. SCOLOPAXIANA : HABITS AND HABITAT. Bv SCOLOPAX. MUBINGB WITHOUT METHOD. Whig and Tory—The Essential Difference between the Parties —Lord Acton —The Dangers ok Reading—A Gbf.at Historian—The Art and Science ...

... promotion and patronage to be awarded, first on one side and then on the other. Wo fully expect hear shortly, especially if the Whigs return into power, that promotion will go the baptismal certificates, then by the quantity of hair left, by the state of officers’ ...

... was not raised by any one on either side of the House except to discard it. The fact that the remedy would be costly,” said a Whig ex-Lord Chancellor —a lawyer, not soldier was no sort of justification or excuse for sending men to a place where they meet ...

... conclusion. Save in the termina- tion, duo to Pollock s resolution, the whole affair was rather discreditable to both parties. The Whigs had got us into the trouble, and the Tories very reluctantly got us outagain. It was a matter stirred by neither party ; so ...

... The Soldiers’ Wateli ~ Keyless Strong Aluminium Hunter £0 11 17 1 Strong SilviT All the above exact Timekeeper-*. J. J. WAIN WHIG II I' an.l CO., M mil E-ST E ET, BIRMINGHAM. /SUTLERV WARRANTKD. Tho most V_y varied assortment TABLE CU TLERY iu the world ...

... Speaker, have quietly looked on when the profes- | sional members of their party have rattled away at | the shortcomings of the Whig Lords; and, now that they are so fortunate as to sit on the right of the chair, they, as a matter of course, submit quietly ...

... looking at the orders from the War Office. If the Tories are in, I am told to take up Popjoy’s system of Macintosh tubes. If the Whigs are in, I am sure to beset to work on Fandango’s gutta percha barrels.’ Is our Admiralty system so very encourag~ ing in its ...

... the national defences is obviously unfit to he trusted with political power at all; but, all the same, the fact remains that Whig has succeeded Tory, Radical has given place to Conservative, and the needs the Navy have been neglected, the necessary expenditure ...

... Butler has appended a judicious note, merely with the purpose, as he tells us. using Johnson’s phrase, of not letting the Whig dogs have the best of it.” We have already drawn attention to these memoirs, and we need not now review them in their English ...

... whom we more particularly allude are, for the most part, too old to dig, and they are too proud to beg. The respectable old Whig alembic into which all the dulness of the week used to be distilled into a caput mortuum, has of late taken to the distillation ...

... escaped two treatises on the subject, which will be riper for treatment and possibly for cure than it is just at present. The Whig organ clings to the birth-place title, though it is published by the great firm of Longmans in Paternoster-row, and sails under ...