... ELECTION—THE IRISH WHIGS. Mr. Pierse Creagh, an independent Roman Catholic gentleman, in noticing a report that he was about to contest the county . Clare on Liberal principles, draws the following highly. flattering picture of the Whigs as a party, and ...

... of the Whigs of Ennis. But their theory of course is this—if a priest approves of a candidate who is not a Whig, it is an offence against the State for that priest to support the candidate. But if a priest approves of a candidate who is a Whig, it is ...

... Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. But the fact is, not only is Mr. Grenfell unpopular with the Catholics of Preston—the whole Whig policy and the Whigs themselves are distasteful and. unacceptable to them. Accordingly, yesterday week a meeting of the leading Catholic ...

... hazards to eject the Orange Party, and restore the Whigs, who all the world knows never packed a jury in their lives. Ah, Johnny, my friend, the men of Ross do not forget the Whig Jury-Packing of '4B, nor the Whig Coercion Bills, nor the suspension of the Habeas ...

... out. The pitiable whine about bringing back the Whigs is nothing but the old Sadleirite cry about bringing in the Tories. We who have mastered the Tory bugbear are not much alarmed at grappling with the Whig. You have yourself placed the question fairly ...

... either. This has driven the Whigs to distraction. Hence that staunch old Whig hack, the London Examiner, is very wrath with Irish Ultramontanisrn. The ostensible cause of its latest ebullition of ill-temper is the defeat of the Whig and godless educationists ...

... of office by Messrs. Keogh and Sadleir, under a Whig government, to do with the present case, in which by far the most respectable and independent of the Irish members, have voted against the same Whigs in strict accordance as I believe with the true ...

... purely personal, and his policy directed to a Whig coalition, or to playing the game of Lord John Russell and the Whigs, under some other name, which will quite as well practically serve the turn of Whig placemen. I sincerely hope, and until he, or his ...

... ter in the desperate hope that they would be instrumental in displacing the Derbyites, and bringing back to office the old Whig party, under his leadership—a circumstance which Ireland would regret, and which we trust but few of her representatives would ...

... overthrow, while the Tories would prevent such a fatality, not that he meant to say they cared a jot more for Catholicity than the Whigs, not a bit of it, but they did not desire to upset the balance of power by giving Sardinia a greater preponderance in Italy ...

... Catholics coincided with their own. As Mr. Samuelson is said to be a Whig-Liberal politician, likely to become a supporter of Lord Palmerston or Lord John Russell, or some other Whig Minister, we are naturally led to infer either that the voters of Banbury ...

... them, we fear they will go with whichever of the Whig Lords will accede to power. The Irish members have made a declaration in favour - of vote by ballot; will they support that question should the Whigs again take office? Will they induce the latter to ...