... the agitation, vouchsafes one historical fact, and one niece of contemporary information. This is the historical fact:— The Whig Government, in the revolution of 1848, means of their Consul at Rome, the late notorious Mr. Freeborn, employed “secret se ...

... statesmanship. His splendid promise of thirty years ago issued in a certain amount of party service, in upholding an unpopular Whig administration, while he damaged his own position by fighting the battles of his friends through right and wrong with equal ...

... of Carlisle’s appointment Dean Tighe, of the Court chapel, to the deanery of Derry, the indulges in a long article against Whig appointments generally in Ireland. It says nothing new, but a great deal that is true, on this subjeet, and the best Mends ...

... educated class the country. “lamafraid/* says Bolingbroke, when describing the accession of the Tory party, after a long course of Whig Government, that we came into power in the same disposition as all parties have done; that the principal spring ofour actions ...

... h the press there. The supper was very creditable to the cuisine of Mr. Mantell. James Bruce, Esq., editor of the Northern Whig, occupied the chair.— The health of the guest of the evening, the late editor of the Banner of Ulster, was proposed Mr. R. ...

... Pope, who would desire such exchange. THE PRINCE OF “WHIPS. [From the London Telegraph.] The difference between Tory and a Whig, according to Sir Bulwer Lytton, is merely that between a burglar and a highwayman.” That sagacious maxim is worthy of its ...

... the age of the great pooh-pooh ! Talleyrand advice to young diplomatist was, above all things, to avoid zeal. The Tories and Whigs or Conservatives and Liberals of our islands as represented by their leaders in parliament, act ujion Talleyrand’s dictum. ...

... reasoning. Moreover, many of the accusations which are launched against these combinations are singularly inconsistent, Thus Whigs and Tones remark with equal satisfaction-Does not the late strike prove that the suffrage cannot with safety extended, for ...

... son of the Church—a Judas—and more to the same effect. Listen to the Tablet the subject:—“ Now let and the Irish Catholic Whigs prepare to sound the praises of Napoleon the Third again. He has directed the old Palace of Avignon to be set in order. is ...

... and we do not know any man out of Bedlam who does. On the contrary, know, and as we know we think it far better to say, that Whigs and Tories are animated mainly the desire they never cease to deny but never cease to feel,' of beating one another at the ...

... is converted into a source of social estrangement; whereas elsewhere where they order things better. Across the channel, Whigs and Tories fight their political battles on the hustings, the public meeting, and in the House of Commons, but they doff their ...

... —Your aitachcd and sincere friend and brother, “ Wm. Turner, Grand Master, “ 7th July, 1860.’’ correspondent of the Northern Whig, anti-Orange, but generally impartial, journal gives the following account of the Derrymacash outrage: At an early hour of ...