... crop. The Flax i* Ireland. ln the course of a review upon the state and prospects of the flax crop of this year, the \orthem Whig observes 1840 there were comparatively few spinners of flax in Ireland. The machinery then set up in the best mills could not ...

... 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 ...

... There is not only a great Whig party, ‘ory party also in Italy—(a laugh)—and that Tory having ing possession government of the country, though in a minority, and in conflict with the Whigs, bee the of of ts have (Cheers.) The Whigs are the more ber pry have ...

... cheering ; but Mr Walpole retorted, with equal effect, that though an utterly rotten borough when it escaped disfranchisement the Whigs, it is now as independent as the borough of Dover. The greatest anxiety was felt to scan the countenances the great leaders ...

... 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 ...

... Brougham will never die. Ye sellers of oats and pigs, Ye sellers of pigs and oats, Did the markets fall with the brutal Whigs, And how are ye off for notes ? O sliort-horn, Devon, and tup— There's plenty gold in town : It's pleasant to think the funds ...

... 734 Spate and 421,130 Other Countries. * 1,066,314 1,379,478 1,178,233 1.01. Mates BELFAST TRADE REPORT. (From the Northern Whig of Saturday) Tan Lixey Goons.—The extent finish, are, at very and the process of and all the after that department of the trade ...

... thraldom of an odious and intolerant clique. For many years this unfortunate Burgh has been regarded as a convenient refuge for Whig Lord Advocates, and so absolute had the bondage become that many of its victims looked upon emancipation as utterly hopeless ...

... seat as fixed sinecure, so long as he might think proper to retain it. It was only on great occasions when the fate of the Whigs hung in the balance, that Colonel Ferguson condescended to come down to the House, and tender his vote. In all the other duties ...

... 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 ...