... done. What is required is, that somne independent member shall move to refer the Bill to a select committee. Mr. Massey, a Whig protege of Lord Palmerston, did give notice of such a motion, and would have carried it had he gone on. Bnt Lord John Russell ...

... Reform Bills for an an- nual reduction of the franchise. Yet the success of such a Bill would have effectually destroyed the Whigs, as a party; for ever. Neither the 30,000 six-tonunders of Man- clester, Birmingham, or Liverpool would elect :1 I i I I rI ...

... leave upon all who came in connoxion with him the impression that, were lie appointed, the right man would for once be put by a Whig Govern- ment in the right place. Influenced by the feeling that it would be for the benefit of the College if he were appointed ...

... answer the policy of the Whigs. It would, in short, be honest and straightforward and so it is not to be done. In the Bill of 1851, there was a clause actually prohibiting the collection of religious statistics in Ireland; but the Whigs have not gone so directly ...

... land, with a little care, is of unrivalled fertility; Shahs- peare has made them the scene of Ariel's home; but successive Whig Administrations have made them the dens of beings more brutalised thar Ca- libals. iAs we have succeeded in Ireland beyond ...

... tants about 2,000,000. Tills return, how- ever, furnished O'Connell with a cry which he used with immense effect upon tile Whigs, and the ello of which still makes that party stand and deliver as effectually as thlq click of a high,- wayman's pistol ...

... hand is raised to deter the offenders. None are so blind as those who will not see, and we all know how little desirous the Whigs are to see criminality in anything a Romish bishop or priest may think fit to sanction or encourage. A few days ago a telegram ...

... by Mr. Cardwell, and accepted by the Romish bishops in part payment of their little bill. It is precisely the game that the Whigs' have been playing in Ireland for thirty years past; every concession only making the priests more inexorable in their demands ...

... meet with no grudg- ing response at Cambridge House. The audacity of the Leader of the Conservative party has burst on the Whig camp like an Armstrong shell in a magazine. It had such an effect upon the nerves of Mr. Gladstone that hle was positively ...

... majority on second reading. Lord Monteagle is to lead the attack, and will carry with him a considerable proportion of the old Whig force in the Lords, with all the Opposition. I think, from the source of this information, that it may be relied upon, and ...

... do not hope to get a tenth part of what they ask; but if they only agitate to the requisite extent, they may hope that the Whigs, true to their old bad policy, will give a portion of their demands to them as a sop. As the demands are insolent, however ...

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