... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...