... DEATH OF . THE DUKE OF BEDFORD, K.G. The patrician section par excellence of the great Whig party has lost one of its highest hereditary magnates, whoie influence was great because he was the head of the House of Russell, representing, not unworthily ...

... ARD COBDEN—THEODORE CHANNING. CHANNING. As you have come to the conclusion that there is not .much difference now between Whigs and Tories, may I ask what effect that assimilation is likely to have upon the st a te of parties in the House of Commons? ...

... the suspicion of having recourse to means unknown in the annals of Whiggery to gain an end? • When was a Whig known to offer a bribe? When did a Whig Government ever try to prop itself up by promises which it could not avow to the world? When did it do ...

... crusade against the Church. That is not the way to make political capital for our party. Mr. Gladstone has many enemies in the Whig ranks, and there is nothing they like better than to find his friends showing themselves openly as enemies of the Established ...

... alternative. I find, as I get older that I am lealnina - to be almost as much ofa trimmer as ifl had been born and bred a downright Whig, . _ COBDEN._ And yet it is well known that you, are a regular Roundhead. One who would fight to the death for the people, ...

... THE CENSUS OF IRELAND, The Northern Whig publishes an excellent résumé of that portion of the census which refers to the north of Ireland. From this statement it appears that Belfast has made great strides in prosperity. Her trade is flourishing, and ...

... fling at Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The truth is, the issue originally raised by the Protestant Alliance was neith er Conservative, nor Whig, nor Radical. It was partly literary, partly religious, and mainly the possible -corruption or integrity of our national records ...

... COBDEN. I suppose you have been dining with some of our Whig aristocracy, and have been primed with their alarmist notions about the danger to be apprehended from French aggression. Now, I can acsure you, after having had the best o pp ortun i t i es ...

... THE CENSUS OF IRELAND, The Northern Whig publishes an excellent résumé of that portion of the census which refers to the north of . Ireland. From this statement it appears that Belfast has made great strides in prosperity. Her trade Is flourishing, and ...

... on the Reform question, and now they themselves shelve the question of Reform. It usually makes a wide difference with the Whigs whether they are in office or out. None bid higher —none are ready to make larger promises than they, when they are on the ...

... sobriety. Spencer was a Whig, unhappily for the Whig party, which, before the unhonoured and unlamented close of his life, w as more than once brought to the verge of ruin by his violent tem per and his crooked politics. His Whig g i sm differed widely ...

... to r the Upper ouse, William Talbot Crosbie, of Ardfert Abbey, and The O'Donoghue will stand for the county ; the former on Whig principles. No COnservative move has been yet made. R. GREGORY, M.P. A despatch from Galway states that this gentleman, in ...