... twenty years, we surely cannot be accused of rashness in now proposing to take their amendment into serious consideration. The Whigs have, long ago, disclaimed finality on all questions whatsoever, and on the question of the franchise they have specially ...

... suggesting the curious combinations into which circumstances may now force them. It has been the saying for years that the terms Whig and Tory, or rather the principles understood those.denominations, were rapidly losing force and significance, being displaced ...

... BELFAST LINEN TRADE. (From the Northern Whig of Saturday.) Liven great branch of our local manufacture continues extremely aa It is calculated that there are in the United Kingdom one hundred thousand spindles idle at present, whicu, twelve months ago ...

... BELFAST LINEN TRADE. (From the Northern Whig of Saturday.) Lraxx Yarx.—We regret being obliged to state that this great staple trade exhibits no improvement. For both fine and coarse numbers there now a very dull demand, indeed, and prices vary as the ...

... —In anticipation of Mr Fagan's speedy retirement from Parliament, Mr Serjeant Murphy has already entered the field as the Whig candidate for the seat about to be vacated. A Parliamentary paper which was is ued on Monday, discloses a iact which holds ...

... the Council gave credibility to the statements abroad, all of which pointed to the sub- stitution of some adherents of the Whig party for the Peelite occupants of the offices more immediately re- sponsible for the mismanagement of the war. The re- port ...

... Duke of Wellington himself, that the idea of making this request first originated. The young Queen was shocked it; was, the Whigs told her, an exorbitant pretension, utterly unauthorised by precedent. It was added that the great ladies of the Conservative ...

... Monday morning by anxious politicians, and it need scarcely be stated that some of the wildest speculations are afloat. The Whig party express their confidence that Lord Derby will not dare to risk a dissolution, and are constructing cabinets with the ...

... quite willing to confess, calculated to be far less unpopular than that recently put forward a more popular Government. The Whig proposal was, that 80,000 of our countrymen should be compelled to serve in the militia for the present year, and 110,000 in ...

... time, is more than sufficient to reC ° n^ eC ility whole liberal interest to almost any I,n j r which the Whigs may exhibit. Fortuna lose the Whig«, their high-flying opponents ep opportunity of showing their colours, a QTS ing constantly before the public ...

... and genius of the Whig party. (Cheers.) I think I have a right to ask the noble lord frankly, —' Are you, Secretary of State or are you not (Loud cheers.) Then he came back to Sir William Molesworth, enquiring where are the Whigs— (cheers) with their ...

... fictions. There never was a more practical meeting than that of Tuesday. To sustain him and themselves in power, the whole Whig party, as long as it is possible, will insist upon the same fiction How is this to be met ? By bringing conviction home to ...