... bad General was better than two good ones. I may say, with him, one bad First Lord is better than three good ; but the great Whig and Tory families who rule this country are of a different opinion. In 1835 there were, Removals. Promotions. 25 12 42 ...

... there were— Beamle. Promotion*. Captains 12 Commanders 36 Lieutenants 107 45 It will be seen that the Whigs have not attended to the minute, or rather, when they exceeded it, they called it a special promotion; but we all know how ...

... the lasolveut Court. The vacant barristership has been ©onferred upon Mr. Gibson, who seme years ago sat in Parliament the Whig representative fer the boreugh of Belfast. Both appointments are regarded as quite unexceptionable. The lucrative office of ...

... its pride and independence. Extermination, sanctioned by English lawtyranny unheard of in the annals of earliest suffering— Whig systems, destined to kill and slay our countrymen have nearly done their worst. Our poorhouses are crowded with the dying and ...

... convey*, very correct idea of them. IRELAND. (fKOM OCR OWN DUBLIN, Friday Morncio. THE CHARGE OF THE BISHOP OF DOWN. The Northern Whig publishes at length the charge of the Bishop of Down, delivered at the visitation of the clergy at Lisburn, and which was briefly ...

... be it said, that whatever differences otherwise exist, there is but one opinion amongst us on the subject of which we speak. Whig and Tory, Protectionist and Freetrader, high churchman and lew churchman, Christian and Jew, forget all their distinctions ...

... remained tiU 1841, when was appointed Secretary of State by President Harrison. After the quarrel of President Tyler with the Whigs in 1841 Webster refused to resign with his colleagues in the Harrison Cabinet, but continued in Tyler’s Cabinet until 1843 ...

... chargeable on the genius or caprice of its authors. So large a measure of relief was quite as abhorrent to the theories of a Whig politician as it was to the interests of Irish proprietor. Had it been at all possible—had Providence allowed the smallest ...

... centage everything can be done. With per cent, on income Sir Robert brought on free trade. With 5 per cent, on the Customs the Whigs had previously found the bottom of the Exchequer. With 1 per cent, on all our private expenditures there are good people who ...

... find that one of those who rose to the very height and summit of power at that period of high emprise” should now, when the Whig party has sunk to one dead level of mediocrity, utter bitter complaints, and exhale his passion in bitter and scornful taunts ...

... DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF MEATH. Somehow or other the Whig Government are seldom left grounds to complain of the lack of patronage. The death of a Chief Justice in one week has been followed in the next by the unexpected decease of a Bishop whose elevation ...

... whole, then, we are afraid that the Woods and Forests arc about one of those bits of jobbery which especially characterize a Whig Administration. Considerations of present economy and future convenienre, says the apologist, suggested the deposit of the ...