... obtain new prerogatives or prevent fresh restrictions on the Royal power. When, by the accession of the House of Hanover, the Whigs at length became completely triumphant, they also fell off from virtue, and the martyrs and patriots of the seventeenth century ...

... President's Message and the Free Trade theories of Mr. Secretary Walker have called forth very strenuous opposition from the Whig party, who appear to be as much opposed to the Democrats on these points as on the Mexican war; and a movement is about to ...

... nomination abuse. Lord Stanley explained this system in the House of Commons once, When he frankly said that Whig or Tory acres Were just Whig or Tory votes in the counties. Let a map be made of the island according to the estates of the four-and-twenty ...

... and ashamed of their continued exclusion from the enfranchised body. Thirdly,—Their rancorous and irrational hatred of the Whigs, and their proclaimed preference of the Tories—which has induced them frequently to make common cause with these, the hereditary ...

... sacrificed to the party interests of those who espoused them, and Dissent was, oftener than became it, a mere tool in the hands of Whig statesmen. The separation of the Church from the State was treated by the principal exponents of Dissenting opinion as an ...

... highest triumph of all, he tamed Ireland. The difficub y of the Wellingtons, the Peels, and the Greys,—the grand problem of Whig and Tory was no problem to him. He suffered resistance neither moral nor physical; he would have hanged the orators and the ...

... progress at post-hour, and it will be seen that money had been collected, in the coolest manner, to hire the murderer. —Belfast Whig. STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—The hideous features of destitution have reached even to Limerick. The Limerick paper states, that on ...

... only weakness—it is strong in its secular and Erastian character. There is scarce an aristocratic interest in the country, Whig or Tory, with which it is not intertwined, nor a great family that has not a large money-stake involved in its support. Like ...

... well-founded belief that a conflict would have ensued: I mean now among the masses of the so-called Democratic party, for the Whigs invariably protested and prophesied that a war must follow upon the annexation of Texas. I:et me revert to the past a moment ...

... more enthusiasm than judgment—Scandalous state of the Offices of the Masters in Chancery. Morning Post.—Vehemence of the Whigs and Dissenters for the Royal Prerogative in the Hampden Case— Free-trade Demonstration at Manchester, an explosion of ignorance ...

... New Orleans, was entirely destroyed by fire, on 18th ult., and forty persons are supposed to have perished /vi th her. t i Whig caucus, held at Washington on the 28th, had ermined to recommend a national convention for the ° lllination of President ...

... clamorous and determined for retrenchment. The spirit soon became influential in Parliament and on politicians. Tory vied with Whig in the grand virtue of the day, retrenchment. A Minister was willing to be judged by the taxes he repealed, and the expenses ...