... It is not on the score of idleness and sheer neglect of their duty, that the Whigs can justly be blamed. We shall not attempt to deny, that during these ten years a larger number than is usual in such a period of really important measures, have passed ...

... as the representative, in the words of Lord Kenmare (himself a Whig and Roman Catholic), of the opinions of his uncle, Mr. D. O’Connell, with the Hon. P. W. Mullins his colleague, in the Whig interest. In 1837 Mr. M. J. O’Connell was again returned for ...

... office,—these favourable circumstances enabled Lord John Russell make plausible speech, which he affected to complain that the Whigs condemned without having the articles of Impeachment against them produced. The simple reply is, that the Conservatives did ...

... Now, amidst all tliis, and almost side by side with these measures, the Whigs were doing other things betokening a not unfriendly feeling to the Church. The Tithe Commutation Bill tended, no doubt, to establish peace between parishes and their several ...

... collateral circumstance directed them to look for the true causes of that measure in the Parliamentary reverses sustained the Whigs, they did not abandon their convictions because Lord •John Russell stated that the budget had been determined upon before Raster ...

... DEFUNCT WHIGS. The Charivari contains the following whimsically absurd description of the demise and interment of the late Whig Ministry:— .. ** The Ministry, which had been for some time indisposed, lay almost speechless in the House of Commons, its ...

... Queen’s Counsel one of the most rising men at the Iriib bar, and in politics high Conservative —Mr. W. D. Freeman. ! these Whigs, these Whigs !” sings one of their supporters (I). But, thank God, we are done with them as a part/ for ever.” Lady Peel, accompanied ...

... has received from the Whigs very eminent and substantial marks of gratitude and favour. But we deny that have been guilty of any such misrepresentation as that imputed to us. If have erred believing and representing that the Whig budget was brought forward ...

... with view to protect the tenant from eviction (!) until compensation for improvements, &c.— Standard. The Last Act of the Whigs.—Liberation of Mb. Fearol’s O’Connor. —Owing to the representations made to Her Majesty's Secretanr of State of the indisposition ...

... hare been nearly constantly absent from England for the last 30 yean: and in the M bush” at the antipodes we care little for Whig and Tory disputes abo3t power and place. I write with a twofold object, viz., to endeavour to bring about a speedy annulment ...

... penal enactment—which owes its existence a Whig Ministry, and which,we earnestly and anxiously trust, will terminate its existence almost simultaneously withthat of its authors, the now prostrate and powerless Whigs. All things taken into consideration, It ...

... valuable step in a right direction. As a politician, we have differed from Lord Cottenham. We believe him to be a very decided Whig partisan, and to have exhibited that partisanship in the use of the influence and patronage of his office. It may fairly, however ...