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... majority dwindles down to tbe rntber ominous number Nine. If the business of State can be transacted with such a majority, the Whigs, no doubt, will keep their bold, for they have no inclination to become ** men before tbe mast.** To do them justice, they ...
... fewer the votes, and the more circumscribed by landlord influence and aristocratic interests, the better for Tory rule. The Whigs, knowing this, believing this, and aware that their own political existence depends on their steady march in the opposite direction ...
... benches.) The « base, brutal, and bloody” attempt conciliate such men as Stanley, with view to continue in office, induced the Whigs to convert Ireland into a lazar-house of pauperism, rags, and destitution. Their acts now stare them in the face, and the ...
... Peel. asked how 1 thought were as to strength in the house ? I said very strong. ' But,' added be, ' shall we have any of the Whigs? They m>an, I understand, rally on the dismissal of Lord Fitzwiiliam.' I said I thought that signified little—that there seemed ...
... we were at the beginning of this sascion, sorely reduced though our existing franchise from what it was in 1640. Whigs—or so edied Whigs—of Ireland, will you ■aver have done dreaming? Wait while’*—“ Stay while’*—*’ Be patient but little, and justice will ...
... the poor. The House of Commons consists of the friends, hangers-on, and, in some measure, dependents of the House of Lords. Whig*, Tories, Radicals, and all who live on the rents and taxes squeezed out of the people, have common interest in keeping in ...
... old stand, ingand long experience shall taken upon the subject. (Hear , hoar.) Now, Sir, I return from that degression to the Whig ministry, and the illustrations I was giving of the evil character of that policy which Sir Robert Peel praised in his last ...
... work. let it be racy of the soil; let no anti-Irish feeling oose through the writers—nothing savouring of English patronage or Whig expediency— Verbum sat. The following sketch of the life of the notorious Achilli will be appreciated our readers. It is ably ...
... usual zeal and ardour to acquire fresh auxiliary io the person of the Duke of Cambridge. He was courted alike by Tory and ; Whig. On the one hand, he was solicited by Fox, Sheridan, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex, and the Duchess of Devonshire: ...
... in which we have taken less interest than the other. The people of Ireland have suffered so much from all ministers, whether Whig or Tory, it would j the same story If there was ao English Radical , ministry, that they have become indifferent as to the ...