... LORD PA E ON THE REFORM BILL AND THE WHIGS. The f on Monday ing speech was delivered xt the dinner at Brechin Lord Paswvae, i; after our reporter had left :-— in acknowledging the toast of his health by the Earl of , said—I rise to thank you your ial ...

... next to accuse the Whigs working out “the Reform Bill,” and of becoming “as great of not efficiently Jobbers as once the Tories were.” T have often heard the former expression, but I confess I co not fully understand its meaning. The Whigs did pass many measures ...

... aa: ‘that I am the last man who should forget the long stru; for the liberties of the maintained by the Whigs, at the risk of personal Who the Whigs were who risked their liberty in the cause of the people I am ignorant. But I know that the extreme Liberals ...

... owm particular principles. Essentially however unpopular the expression may essentially, I say, they are those of a Whig. The old Whig principles I understood from the life, conversation, speeches, and character, of the man whose name I bear Charles James ...

... measures for the encouragement of improving tenants and the assiatance the labouring poor, The Arrests in Belfast.—The Northern Whig has got possession of a copy of the information in the case of the Belfast prisoners, which discloses fully all those particulars ...

... shoulders to the wheel, and the voice of starving millions was expressed in terms not to be mistaken by any Government. Had the Whigs fairly worked out the Reform Bill of 1832 I doubt much if new one would now have been necessary. I say advisedly they did not ...

... in opposing Mr Bricnt ; add to these the general body of Conservative members who will follow the Government, and of the Whigs who will follow Lord J. and PaLMERston, and there seems little probability of the Bill passing. Regarding the measure, however ...

... power, nothing was done the Whigs to indemnify him for what he had suffered ; while honours and rewards were showered upon men who had resisted to the last every measure proposed for the benefit of the people. Many acts of the Whigs I look upon jobs. lam not ...

... excitement without, no endeavour to coerce them, and a general reliance on their good faith. The latest who have spoken have been Whig statesmen, who justly express fear lest the million should usurp the power, and the moneyed, enlightened, and most respectable ...

... disappeared with the new creation into the blank void of impracticable schemes, Mr Baxter had sundry pleasant flings at the Whigs ; and last October very pre ly took exception to Lord Panmure’s expressed notions of Reform. His Lordship retorted at Brechin ...

... memberfor the’ 4 is worth all the temy popularity that a departure from it may give anyone.” But shortly after this he says, “that Whig principles stop at a certain int and then turn ;” and I he alludes to this fact—that after he was unseated for the county of ...

... to hear a good report from Belfast, where the spinners are fully alive to the peculiar position of the trade. The Northern Whig states that “there ‘are at present, on the average, of idle and partially employed spindles, about one-cighth of the whole ...