... NEW GOVERNMENT APPOINT- MENTS. MR T. W. RUSSELL SATISFIED. The Belfast Northern Whig states authori- tatively that Mr T. W. Russell, having re- ceived satisfactory assurances from the Govern. ment that a Land Bill for Ireland on Liberal lines will be ...

... diplomacy for politics, and sat as the Whig member for bouth Durham from 1841 to 1859, when he was ^5™ for Hastings. After his accession to the duchy he ceased to take much interest in politics, but, like most old Whigs, he turned Unionist. Of late years ...

... stage. What will spring from the ruin of parties ? The old lines of demarca- tion are being gradually broken up, like the Whigs and the Tories of ancient days. We shall soon have Coalition Governments. Thus history repeats itself. ...

... will not, we have good reasons to believe, be supported Dy any section of the Literal party, both the ltadi- cals and the Whigs being opposed to any amendment being brought forward. The Liberal leaders have accordingly determined to confine their opposition ...

... make a bargain between the Whigs and the Conservatives. Lord Har- tington said it was of the utmost importance that there should be Irish Whigs in the next House of Commons. He (the speaker) did not agree with him. The Irish Whigs, as a body, had been a curse ...

... 1872. Ll,OYD.—Yon can sum it as you suggest. You aaiot bound to be together. SoRUFFEKs —Disraeli's tirst candidature was &s a Whig. ...

... had been true to its traditions in seeking to give Home Rule to Ireland, because the Union was opposed by all the eminent Whigs of the time. Hu objacted to the Coercion Act under which Ireland was being ruled, because it set aside the ordinary law. ...

... the Government^ policy, and in a letter to a local paper announced his desertion of the Liberal party. The Belfast Northern Whig declares that all he says may be true, but it does not justify Lie casting in his lot with the Irish Tories. Mr Jenkins has ...

... SPLIT IN THE HOME RULE PARTY. The Northern Whig says It may not be generally known, but we have ib on undoubted authority, that there is a split in the Home Rule camp in Belfast on the question of continuing Mr. Butt as leader of the party, a section ...

... Mr. Sotheron Esteourt and Sir Charles Adlerley in introducing the Xiendly Societies Bin, and has the reputation of being a Whig of the old school, the Opposition benches may regard him with special favour. ...

... Saturdar morning, a man named/.G. J. Godding committed suicide by taking a draught of hydrate f potassium The deceased, besides Whig 'a JavelHn. a stat'ouery bu^iesa in the town 0°f E2 fig, W temperance, ^nd there is no «oubt but that the ra-h 0°+ was committed ...

... the Liberals, but especially of the Whigs. It was a noble thing on the part of Burke and Fitzwilliam and the other seoeders frem Fox, that not all their horror of France could make them untrue to Ireland. The Whig party after the schism remained for Irish ...