... The friends of the right lion. and learned gentleman thereupon improvised a demonstration in his behalf, and all parties, Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, at once expressed their willingness to join in it. When, a few minutes afterwards, Mr. Whiteside, looking ...

... opportunity, by means of the Whigs, of asserting their power and making it felt. The Whigs perceived that they could make use of them to serve their own ends, and they did so, accordingly, without scruple. But when the Whig leaders launched the question ...

... refreshingly cool, considering that the Government had, a couple of hours before, met the motion with a direct negative. The Whigs, however, like well-bred spaniels, know how to retire gracefully when they see the prospect of being igno- miniously ejected ...

... sailed, of Committees afraid But then there arose from supporters and foes A growl that disturbed the official repose : The Whigs from a scrape are glad to escape, So the witness against them is sent the Cape. Said then—that coolest of men— O, he's still ...

... Ireland, but it is by no means unlikely that the electors have begun to realise the fact that Irish votes have been regarded I by Whig Ministries only as useful cards to be played off at convenience, while Irish interests have been studiously neglected and Irish ...

... have done a graceful act, in recognition of splendid public services, at a moment of almost unprecedented emergency. But the Whigs are rarely animated by a generous impulse, and very seldom give to anyone else what, by any possibility, they can keep for ...

... their merits recognized by discerning relations during the Whig Paradise of the last thirty years Take care of Dowb, was the celebrated telegraphic despatch to the Crimea of a certain Whig Secretary for War, on his entrance into office. The excellent ...

... our readers on the very intelligible and rionsise style in which the largest county in Ireland—a nomad which has returned Whigs ever since the Reform frin—a county which is the very stronghold and centre vibe leisleru, whether political, social, or r ...

... damages on the ground that his client was merely a labourer. M'Connelfs appearance in ceurt is thus described by the Northern Whig :—' The defendant was one of the most extraordinary looking persons that ever a breach of promise ease was brought against ...

... thus: Liberal papers, 50; Conservative, 17; Independent, 20 j Neuter, 128. No distinction is here made between Liberal and Whig, or Liberal and Radical; nor between Conservative and Liberal Conservative or Tory.—Critic. Newspaper Births and Deaths, 1860 ...

... everywhere has their sympathy. The successors of Castlereagh|and Canning have certainly nothing to learn in foreign policy from Whig Minister whose best defence is that he endeavoured to copy the former of these statesmen but broke down in the attempt. The ...

... of Government, and their approval of the stand made by independent members. Of this meeting, the Times and the Conservative-Whig press made no mention. Next, meetings, convened circuUr, resolved on the formation of a London Political Union, lo develop ...