... upon this affair. It will only a sham fight got to resemble a real one. The opposition does not want to kill the Whig cabinet, and the Whig cabinet does not intend to be killed. The case is one in which every member may vote according to his conscience ...

... ” The Whigs apparently proposed the latter figure in the hope that their party opponents would raise it to eight, and the latter seem to shrink from saving the constitution lest they should unable to raise the franchise standard above the Whig level. ...

... OUR COUSINS GERMAN. What Swift, in the bitterness of party rancour, said ] the Whig Bishop Burnet, might, with at least equal truth, be said of the very greatest man in this our day :—“ The world hath acquired fashion believing him backwards.” His pr ...

... the frank admissions of their respective supporters. To use the words of the Cork Examiner : the Pope on one side, and the Whig Government on the other.” Here is no mincing of the matter; no pretence of fighting for despotism, the banner of liberality ...

... OARD OF NATIONAL EDUCATION We (Northern Whig) beg to direct attention to the follow- ing correspondence between the Presbytery of Antrim and the Lord Lieutenant, from which it will be seen that the Irish Government are resolved to carry into effect their ...

... his official life Judge Perrty has maintained a high character for honesty and legal ability. He was a staunch and consistent Whig; but no one ever doubted the inte- grity of his intentions or the uprightness and straightfor- wardness of his judicial conduct ...

... THRE CE Ts Our respected Romanesque-Whig contemporary, the Evening Post, calls attention to the fact that “ it is vaguely insinuated that tle Government has entered into collusion with the Catholics, in some form or other, to exclude religion from the ...

... Belgium, left his proxy to be used against the second reading. Lord Overatone, Lord Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and many more Whig peers, vote with Lord There appears to be some doubt whether Messrs. Gladstone and Milner Gibson mean to resign, the Premier ...

... IRELAND. Mr. M‘Evot, M.P. for Meath, has done a good service the cause of truth and plain dealing by driving Her Majesty’s Whigs out of their doubling and dodging excuses for not arming volunteers in Ireland. They have been often questioned on this subject ...

... coteuiporary will excuse us for remarking that the fact of the latest two developments of the agitation having taken place under a Whig regime, would show that there must be something congenial to Repeal in those auspices. shall again quote the Times which, without ...

... Transatlantic Packets; that is, that Galway has been sold, basely sold; and the chief foe and traitor is thought to be the Whig Government. Their threatened violation of the national faith, say the Galwegian patriots, broke the heart of the most promising ...

... subject. Whig Controller of the Exchequer heads the opposition to Mr. Gladstone’s revolutionary proposal to change the incidence the whole taxation of the country. He is supported Whig ex-Secretary for War, a Whig ex-Colonial Secretary, and: a Whig ex-man ...