... is the devotion of Whigs and Whig organs to the retrospective clause. They almost adore it. Deceived by Palmerston they felt no concern ; but repudiated by Disraeli they lament its fall, with passionate sorrow. It was not the Whig dagger, but the Tory ...

... troublesome, and perhaps when the master had nothing to do be would look over it. Such was the language of the Irish Whig organs at the time when Whigs were in office when Lordships of the Treasury might be had by a swindle, and Judgeships by broken oath; when ...

... Mr. i* Belpast.—The Northern Whig concludes notice of Mr. Spurgeon's sermon, which is reported at some length, in these terms :— u We cannot deny that Mr. Spurgeon is a remarkable man, and we not wish to deny that has elements of power and forcible expression ...

... Irish Whigs have, by a sudden and venemous burst of spleen, revealed their concealed animosity any party which maintains its independ'ence, and thus shewn the true nature of their own principles and their own patriotism. The assaults of the Whig press ...

... his ideas of literary perfection, and them he takes for models. God, ofcoursej made the Universe fur Whig kings, Whig Patricians, Whig statesmen, Whig scribblers, for Lord John Bussell, Lord Grey, Lord Lansdowno, and Lord Thomas ...

... first we are indebted to Lord John Russell ami the Whigs, for the second to Sir Robert Peel and the Tories, and for the last to Lord Derby and the Tories. it possible that morbid gratitude to the Whigs for their support of the measure of 1829, which was ...

... obtained it, and any Whig may calculate how much a better Bill the same policy would have insured it carried out by fifty meu instead of ten. Be this instalment trifling or great, even so much was not to be had from the Palmerstonian Whigs, who sought to trepan ...

... that Mr. Milner Gibson's amendment which overruled the Whig ministry, was in the handwriting of Lord John Russell. was the possession of the late administration, and the treachery of the ex-Whig leader was so much felt, that all its members bound themselves ...

... the Whigs. those blessed Orangemen would only perpetrate some shocking outrage, commit another massacre, it might yet revive old feelings of hatred, might yet rally the Catholics round the Whig standard, and tlpset the Derby Government. the Whig's last ...

... a thorough-going Whig, although backed most powerful influence, was significant proof that t! people there, well in Mayo and elsewhere, regarded with little favour those who entered parliament prcfcssedlv support unconditionally Whig administration; hot ...

... that it was the Whig party that the Ecclesiastical Titles' Bill was introduced into Parliament, and that the last act of this party was to set on foot an ex officio prosecution against two priests for having employed against the Whigs that clerical influence ...

... tell them unpalatable truths should they ever again as body be installed Downing-street. They were, we will grant, Whigs, puro Whigs, old Whigs—all that in the eyes of that exacting community, the Liberal party, is typical of narrowness and nepotism. They ...