... 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. ?? we have succeeded in Ireland beyond the ...

... imparted by a Whig or a Tory hand, a sound and substantial measure they were at length sure to have. The distinguished leader of the Conser. vatives scoffed loudly at the pretensions of them rivals to a monopoly of reforming zeal; and with the Whigs the only ...

... considerable l ' re-action has occurred in the politi- sti [r. cal world upon more subjects than one; and that, as th, the Whigs have been very much left to themselves, to . they have exhibited not only the hollow insincerity of sP te their hustings pledges ...

... anxious to do justice to this characteristic wa r. stroke of chivalry. If the days of Reform are °over for our hereditary Whigs, let us at all events thi have the satisfaction of showing that the days of ov: T chivalry are not dead for them. No; though ...

... 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 ...

... between iE~rl- Z that whena rognes fall ont, honest men come..by; theirx ?? .The: Refo~rm de- | thbe''tactics enmployed by 'Whigs'iind 'Torres; to-, defeat .g simple.'meaaure, ,,ha~ ad, s-s finitiedly. revealed a d~epcx'ipt~id,,or jo iiorlity:'; zaot ...

... 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 ...

... lii old colleagues in their attack on this Government measure; to and the Conservative Peers are but too happy to have a th .Whig ex-official taking the initiative in the unusual course Iof rejecting a financial measure sent up from the other dc cHoues ...

... repeal of the Paper Dtty BIll. That they were placed In this awkward predliament in duoe entirely to the timidity of the old whigs, as will be seen from the divislon llst. The desertion of so Lirge asectlon of their supoortrs on a question where no one could ...

... tendency to make the publicans' interest needless. Now, let it be remembered, that as a thorough radi- cal, Mr. Edwin James met Whig Romilly. el expected, judging from the huastings Radi- cal, to hear the MarylebOne member roar in the House of Commons his ...

... political office, in so far as it depends on the ministry of the day. For a num- ber of years Sir John Melville was chairman of the whig committee. On the reconstitution of the Scot- tish universities he was chosen by Lord Brougham, chancellor of Edinburgh university ...