... If, then, we recur to the heading of this article, and demand WHO ARE THE AGITATO1S, the re.* sponse must be-that to the Whig government of England the title 'should'prereminently belong;- they lit the flame-they prepared the programme- 'they dedicated ...

... them out of parliament, and what this section desire, their pe- culiar piety-the two, and more numerous parties of Russell- Whigs and Derby-Tories desire from their selfish policy. These parties feel that whilst such men are in parliament there is no impunity ...

... ated your degradation and your slavery. The bigots of 1813 had the decency to wear a mask which the base and unblushing Whigs of 1851 have utterly thrown away. In 1813 the audacious attempt was made to fetter the Irish episcopacy, and# under the disguise ...

... decided effect in 'turning the balance. We be- lieve, for we do not accurately know, that Mr. Heard is what is described ss a Whig of the old school-we should hope not in the same sense as Mr. Ponsonby, or Mr. Bawes, or men of their way of thinking. At any ...

... approved of by the Whigs of that day, and was almost re-echoed in'.the answer returned by William IV. to the address of the House of Commons in the session of that year. Has Orangeism under- gone any organic change since 1836 ? If not, the Whigs and their Irish ...

... Prius hope to turn the concession? What vague importance would not every gobe mouche attach to the fact when announced, that a Whig ex-minister had been favoured with an au- dience by the Pope ! How easy to prolong the curiosity of the idle by looking wise ...

... obvious that the Ca- tholics of Ireland must be prepared to fight and vanquish both Whigs and Tories at the next general election. It is an old saying- Trust a Whig as far as you can throw him, and it will be a toler- ably safe rule to say, place about ...

... them. Mr. Macaulay justly observes that these dissimilar answers account for the diffe- rent fates of the two monarchs. The Whig Lord John Rus- sell has chosen the policy of the Stuart prince. We return to the ?? Lord John Russell enforce his bill against ...

... House of Conmtmons in England. The Americans know you too SI well to be imposed on by Whig compliments; there yi is a vast majority in that country against the Whig minister, a, and a majority which, in a near future time, will, as sure as ...

... Disraeli exhibited not a particle of confidence, and only Laenough of dignity to fold hisrobes around him as he fell. The * Whigs are sanguine, the Peelites comfortable but for the ins Protectionists there is nothing but to recant or retire. The is- noble ...

... is sure of prefe- rence at all times before a great merchant or a man of acknowledged services or talents. The question in Whig circles is not, what is he? but, who is he? His merits may be nil, and his intellectual sex doubtful; but if his mother was ...

... der-Secretary, and in the acceptance by that gen- tleman-the son and political successor of Sir R. Peel-of office under the Whig and No-Popery cabinet. It will be remembered that in the early 'discussions of the penal bill, one of the most earnest and ...