... or the friends of the present Commercial system, being in power, have failed to meet them. TheY cannot be remedied, or the Whigs have declined to administer the remedy. The proposals regarding the present Customs duties are made virtually to place so much ...

... folly. The Economist is avowedly the property of one member of the Administration, attached to the Grey section of the old Whig Government; and forming, although not in the Cabinet, with Sir Charles Wood, its representation in the present Ministry. The ...

... was an additional r.r for asking it. We had a Co nserva ti ve Mi n i s t r y a n d a C on servative i t e m Where were the Whigs, with their traditions of patriotism P Where were Radicals? No man dared call himself a Radical, for fear of being caught ...

... past weeks of 1853. The increase of importations, contrasted with exportations, has slightly shaken the confidence of some Whig politicians in their new opinions. Means are necessary for their re-assurance. Therefore, We are now told that the imports ...

... unprecedented demand for vessels; and even in Belfast, the effects are felt are felt in a very remarkable way. The Northern Whig of Saturday says :— For the present our harbour has quite a deserted appearance. The foreign arrivals for the week have been ...

... During the negotiation, we believed that the modern political economists disliked the entire business, and regarded it only as a Whig job. This opinion was entirely erroneous, although the mistake may be excused by the language which they frequently employed ...

... easily available. It much superior in softness, cleanness ; and colour, to the flax ordinarily Pr ° by this system.—Northern Whig. CASES or SOMNAMBULISM.—On Saturday morning sen'a quiet villlage of Hoff, near Appleby, was thrown into an unusual state of ...

... he should, in committee, move to substitute for the oaths proposed by it, the oaths contained in the bill introduced by the Whig Government, in 1849. On the motion of Lord STANLEY of Alderley, the New Forest Deer Act Amendment Bill was read a second time ...

... repeal the corn laws. Within the same period the late Sir Robert Peel, aided by the party now using his name, defeated the Whigs at a general election, turning, on their reform of the tariff, which included a fixed duty of Bs. per quarter on wheat. The ...

... member for Westmeath, to the effect that when Lord Derby's Government was in office, an accredited agent of the combined Whig and Peelite party came to the Irish members and proposed to them to join in turning out the Government, on condition that Ireland ...

... quarrel on the subject of transportation. The present Goverment know not what to do with the wicked. The relic of the late Whig Goverment, for whom no place has been found in the Coalition, wants still to send fellows to dig for gold. We have no sympathy ...

... stated that he had had a communication from an authorized agent of the Whigs to the effect that, if the Irish members would assist in ejecting Lord Derby's Government, they (the Whigs) would not impose an income-tax upon Ireland. This statement, coupled ...