... that even for Whigs the hypocrisy of objecting to such a course would be too gross and glaring. The Whigs had held possession of office for ten years, and in that long period had done nothing whatever for Reform. Eight years ago the Whig Premier, when ...

... another. But how will it affect Catholics ? Then there is another question often put. Are the Catholics glad or sorry that the Whigs are out of office ? Who shall say ? Who shall assume to speak on their behalf? No man has their proxy. Outside the defined ...

... the comparative merits of the two writers, we must give by far the highest place to Lord Mahon, Both are partisans—Macaulay a Whig, Lord Mahon a Tory—but Mahon is of calmer temperament, and far more impartial, while Macaulay is an idolater, a hero worshipper ...

... majonty of the people of Ireland. To me, h ow _ ever, and to you, it matters little whether, in relation to the past, the Whigs are or are not more deserving of condemnation than the Conservatives. Let us endeavourto provide for the future rather than ...

... question of parliamentary reform. The first Reform Bill was a mere Whig job, constructed so as to secure power and office for that party:— Well, the second Reform Bill of the Whigs was promised us, I think, in siso or sllst—we are now in as,. The delay ...

... France to a degree that is already inconvenient, and may become alarming. It is a great blessing that Lord Palmerston and the Whigs have been turned out on any pretext, but it will be a great pity it, when the very proper, dignified, and friendly answer which ...

... people were sick of a Protestant revolution', and desired the restoration of the old Catholic dynasty. And so thought the Whigs, for so soon as they came into power they passed the Septennial Act, which secured them a seven years' lease of power, easily ...

... While this remains in doubt, it is our business to point out the great advantages to be derived from the displacement of the Whig Ministry, and the great opportunity which is once more vouchsafed to us. But from the moment that the point is settled in the ...

... Defence Fund. I feel great pleasure in performing this small act in order to mark my sense of opposition to the tactics of the Whig government, whose only object seems to be, as it ever has been, the starvation of the faithful f=l i e of Ireland, and the ...

... administration was in power ; whereas if those pledges had been kept with a stern impartiality towards all political parties, Whigs and Tories, Radical and Conservative, and, above all, towards the Liberals, that slippery class who are always ready to slide ...

... that it was by 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-ofiio prosecution against two Priests for having employed against the Whigs that Clerical influence ...

... with elections of a peer of Parliament, have not only complicated the question, but have changed its complexion. To secure two Whig seats for the City of the Tribes was, no doubt, worth an effort, but it may be attended with disagreeable consequences. On ...