... opposition to the Whigs. do not pretend to follow the course of this opposition in its minute details. For the first two or three year* it comprised resistance, first to the reform measure itself, and then to the measures which the Whigs introduced in the ...

... have delivered violent speeches the subject. The following is a fair specimen of the speech delivered Mr Duffy:—l tell the Whig Ministry from this place that while Smith O'Brien is in Maria Island they shall not dare to bring the Queen of England into ...

... neighbourhood, the day passed over peaceably; and from quarter have we beard that anything di-a/reeable had occurred—Northern Whig of Tuesday. Mbrdrr krar Portadown.—A most cold-blooded Tuesday week, the victim being Mr John Woolsey.a gentleman rather opulent ...

... afford to be dull. An arrival from America contains intelligence that the New York and Miobigan elections are in favour of the Whig or Moderate party, and that the disunionists are likely to lose portion of their influence. Several votes at the elections ...

... would understand the new state of the world. The coincidence of the explosion of the revolution, with the existence of the Whig Cabinet of Lord Palmerston, was a piece of good fortune for the revolution of February, and for the necessary maintenance of ...

... The Premier's letter, the speeches of the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief-Justice, the declarations of nearly all the leading Whig noblemen and politicians, are directly and strongly binding upon Ministers. Added to these are the Conservative and clerical ...

... goee the wall. I expounded this In e letter to the late Duke of Bedford 18V, which called down on the factious rage of the Whig pertisans, who cared only for their party objecte. But it is truth of melancholy kind, and ail but disheartens me. Mr Hutne ...

... for St Albany. This gentleman expired on the 17th iastant, at Snrbiton Place, Surrey, aged seventy-five. Mr Raphael was a Whig in polities. By religion was a Roman Catholic, and was munificent supporter of the Romish Church, to whose ministers within ...

... leader of the Protectionists, Lord Stanhope denounced bis alliance, the Peelites kept him aloof, Mr Cobden defied him, and the Whigs disowned him. At one bound, however, he has placed himself in a conspicuous position as a parliamentary tactician. His motion ...

... Achitophel— who draws his pen for one party must expect to make enemies of the other. For wit and fool are consequents of Whig and Tory; and every man a knave or an ass to the contrary side. This was in 1681 there has not been much improvement in the ...

... palpable hitt. On Friday night the majority for Minitters was in both Houses what the Spectator calls that perfection of Whig ascendancy, working majority of one. The debate in the House of Lords to-night will put the Cabinet on its mettle—perhaps ...

... Chnrch. Such rank and precedence it was not in the power of the Lord-Lieutenant either confer or withhold—whether he were a Whig or an Orangeman it was his duty to treat them according to the dignity which had pleased the Sovereign to recognise their persons ...