... to the improvement of Ireland that this law be substantially amended . The noble lord, who while he sat in parliament was a Whig, delivered a scathing denunciation of the pre- sent ministry and their Irish measures. The Hon. St. John Butler seconded the ...

... contingent of cracksmen, pickpockets, and fences, the earliest named Free-traders by the way— that the Peelite and Whig policy found any ad- vocates. The Irsh meeting promises well ; it is the meet- ing ofthe elect of seven or eight millions — ...

... Irish meeting, the most auspicious step in the.cause of protection that has yet been taken. In Ireland Sir Robert Peel and the Whigs have achieved what we should have thought an impossi- bility—they have united the honest men of all ranks and all parties in ...

... constitution of Queen, Lords, and Commons, is any longer to be retained (cheers). Gentlemen, this is no mere narty squabble between Whig the Tory. This onward movement of the Manchester school is nothing less than an attack upon the aristocracy of this land (cheers) ...

... its prayer. Ireland and the Lothians had spoken oat upon the subject, and it behoved the English farmer to do the same. The Whigs, it was said, were made of squeezable materials; and if they gave Lord John Kussell a squeeze, seeing how changeable had been ...

... aside all party and political feeling and opinion — let Whigs and Tories in Yorkshire unite to return Protec- tionist members (loud cheers). I will do my best endeavour, and if the keenest Whig tbat ever walked presented himself as a Protectionist, I ...

... Mr. Cobden made the following, t amongst other observations : — I I feel exceedingly gratified at the course which the i Whig cabinet has taken upon this subject. You remember, j I dare say, that all this hubbub through the country — this i gathering ...

... Heath and Waltham, of a high degree of merit. Not the least interesting incident of the day, however, was the appearance of the Whig Duke of Grafton in the ranks of the Country party. Many such converts may be expected. The Duke of Grafton appeared in person ...

... Hamilton, who repented of his sins, and would, he hoped, receive abso- lution at their hands (a laugh). It was clear that the Whigs already began to wince. He would not presume to dictate to others, but for his own part he would say that he would go to the ...

... policy has ruined, there is another reason why the Whigs are very unwilling to adopt the schemes of the sapient Sir Joshua Walmesley. The institutions of the country have been a kind of currency to the Whigs, by the expenditure of which they paid their way ...

... Would any other mau say it would do so ? There was no doubt that great reductions might be made, and it was equally true that a Whig government was an expensive luxury (cheers, and laughter). Again, he protested against the idea that finan- cial reform would ...

... work to be retaliated against them. The thing may seem small, but it is part of the material upon which the whole fabric of Whig and Peelite in- fluence rests, and it is only by picking away the foundation of that fabric as it were, stone by stone, that ...