... which, although nominally there was voting of scot and lot, he had absolute and entire controL It happened also that a wealthy Whig peer was desirous of increasing his political influence, and be requested me, then a young man and without the slightest connection ...

... with Mr. W. E. Gladstone. The most noteworthy incident probably was a letter from the Duke of Portland, one of the greatest of Whig magnates and a munificent supporter until lately of the Lib era l party, enclosing a cheque for £2,000 in support of the patriotic ...

... AN ACTION FOR LIBEL. An action against the Belfast Northern Whig for publishing, as a reprint from the Daily Telegraph an article in connection with alleged bribery at the 'last election for the borough of Londonderry, has been tried at Tyrone, terminating ...

... of The Revolution we are bound to drive the party to logical conclusions, or break it into a thousand pieces, as was the old whig party, unless we get our rights.' That brought him to his pocket-book, and he signed his name Andrew Johnson, with a bold hand ...

... part in the great battle of Roman Catholic Emancipation, he was always regarded as one of the Moderate party who adhered to Whig principles, and stood opposed to Ultramontane notions. His Lordship married in 1817 Louisa Emilia, only daughter of Mr. Elias ...

... are observed in some parrs of the north of Ireland wag afforded at an investigation at Banbridge, reported in the Northern Whig : In the month of June some Roman Catholic missionaries visited the town, and special services were conducted in the chapel ...

... against King James, for civil and religious freedom ; remember the example of our forefathers, bishops, and barons, and good old Whigs, who always looked to ancient landmarks, clun 6 to the fundamental principles, held fast ancient charters, and so built up ...

... entered the Reformed Parliament the same year as member for Penryn and Falmouth. lie became Solicitor-General just before the Whigs went out in December, 1834, and he returned to the same office when they came in in April, 1835. Four years later he was raised ...

... deceive him as to any such meeting as he refers to having taken place in 1829. The only meeting held about that time by the Whig party on the subject of Reform, of which I am aware, or of which I can learn anything from Lord Russell, was one of the members ...

... seems to have been originally designed in its present form chiefly to explain why he left the Tories and took office under the Whig Earl Grey ; a change which, according to Lord Palmerston's chivalrous sense of honour, could only be justified by the fact ...

... communicated from the adult to the infant ! An example, which proves this satisfactorily, is reported as follows in the Northern Whig : The other day, at a vaccination station certainly not a hundred miles from the Belfast Exchange, a woman entered the room ...

... Irishmen. Violent addresses were delivered, and one speaker having condemned the Tory Government, the meeting shouted, The Whigs would have done likewise. It was not words, but deeds (declared a Mr. Carmody) that would show what the men were ; they had ...