4 MAY 1861, page 13

The Position Of The Whig Party.

I T is the fashion just now to say the Whig party is extinct, and undoubtedly the word, as a party designation, is slipping out of use. A river, however, is not extinct because......

The Civil War In America.

W E know at last the opinion of the silent North, and with the knowledge the lingering hope of averting civil war has suddenly disappeared. The attack on Fort Sumpter released......

The Indian Horizon.

T HE Government of India sees land, Despite the mis- chances of the last three years, the loss of a European army and the break down of all fiscal arrangements, of the death of......