... to the party’ that is now so rampant for the reimpositiou of a tax on one of the chief necessaries of human existence. The Whigs have not yet given an expression of opinion on the protection controversy; but it may safely be said that, whatever that opinion ...

... the basis of the Government may have been narrowed, Lord John may fairly say that the fault is none of his. Strong as the Whigs are in all the strength hereditary connection and traditional loyalty to their creed, Lord John’s first official act was to ...

... history. In the present state of parties, this new dodge,’ of an extension of the suffrage, is the only chance of the Whigs, and it is because it is their only chance that I look upon it as seriously meant. We must take for granted that any such measure ...

... him out of a Sharman Crawford, M.P. Re ,°. , sum money, and that the pursuer was ail liar, per ‘There,’exclaims the‘Northern Whig, Catholics and Pro- | son unworth * of credit, a cheat, and a coward; And also, testants, notwithstanding the state party feeling ...

... have been too much disposed to look upon the Reform Bill as a final measure. They seem to admire it as the ne plus ultra of Whig legislation—as a thing too sacred to be touched—as a monument of their wisdom that was to stand entire for ever. It was of ...

... bring in measure to increase the suffrage, he would reply that they did so because they had no faith in the intentions of the Whigs. Indeed, he only regarded the Charter as the beginning of large measures of reform; and he for one was not inclined to join ...

... amendment to the Address—that Address proposing an eight shilling fixed duty ; and the effect of his amendment was to turn the Whig Ministry who proposed it out of office. (Cheers.) That nobleman has chosen, in an unlucky moment for his own reputation, to ...

... (Loud cheers.) Mr. Cayley, M.P,, in moving another the resolutions, congratulated the meeting on seeing so many' of his old Whig friends here. He had spoken to several of them on the sub ject of their attendance, and they declared that things were becoming ...

... demolished a bridge on the public road leading to the collieries near Massford, in the county Carlow, last week. The ‘Northern Whig* reports case of incendiarism in the county of Antrim, and the immediate vicinity of Belfast, evidently of an agrarian character ...

... Ministers a majority of 21. —The division list brings out some curious results. Some of the Free Traders, and one or two of the Whigs, were in the minority; but the great bulk of those who swelled its ranks to so high a pitch were the Members who, originally ...

... the pension-gorged Whig Duke of Grafton ; so with Lord Kugent, the metropolitan standardbearer of Sir Joshua Walmsley’s National Stick-at-Nothing Velocipede Association ; and so with Sheridan, the Spoiled Child of a whole race of Whig-fondled Little Pickles ...

... parties in Parliament on this interesting subject. In truth, there is a general suspicion that, however otherwise at variance, Whigs and Conservatives arc possessed with a common horror of a vulgar franchise and a democratic constituency ; and accordingly ...