... cannot punish, why are her Ministers to suffer for their falsity? It would be a novel doctrine, and not a very safe one. To Whig and to Tory it would be equally inconvenient. On Mr. Kerb’s principle it is intelligible, but unless, as that gentleman recommends ...

... to me that Petersburg was in our possession.” Nothing of recent date has been heard from General Sheridan, but the Richmond Whig of the 15th contains a dispatch from Gen. Lee, stating that Sheridan had been routed in engagement with Fitz Lee and Hampton ...

... Conservatism would have it believed that that was but the ostensible reason, and that the real one was the jealousy of the Whig Oligarchy, whom the sacrifice of a talented and ambitious man had long been settled : Like Lord John Russell in 1855, like ...

... with our rulers we expect others to be patient with ourselves. Of all difficult duties theirs is the most difficult, and they Whigs or be they Tories, they acquit themselves much better than their censors would do were they in their place. We are by no means ...

... Italians or the desire of the Romans to rid themselves of the Pope? Would' it have got them any one of the things which the Whigs refused them ? If it would not, why are they to be denounced for not yielding it ? and if it would, what are we to think of ...

... could be discovered to cornice with the illegal society generally set down the Fenian Brotherhood, arrests were madc.-xW««vi Whig. ...

... found, to embalm him like Egyptian imimmy, and tii preserve him in glass case the last Irish Whig. fLarghter.) I admit that in the time the first Karl Grey tire Whigs were a powerful party in Ireland, and have clue’ to the causes their extinction. When they ...

... eloquence. The Pott does not parody it in speaking of it thus;— The Whigs charge the calamities of Ireland upon the weather, but Lord Derby's sponsors throw the blame of the weather on the Whigs. When Lord Etdinton was lodged in the Castle, say those respect ...

... its past history and the history of its present Head, the Papacy will be found provoking rather than averting. The Northern Whig contains the following from a correspondent:— Episcopii, Intolerisce at Portadown.—The Baptist denomination at Portadown has ...

... banner, for “Parliamentary action.” The phrase was designedly vague. Itdid not necessarily exclude Nationalist, Fenian, pure Whig, or Ultramontane-Ally. Short time has elapsed, however, since that display of forenoon’s superficial concord, even the unskilled ...

... have been hopes of a reversal of this, and a year ago or less a vacancy, it was expected, would be filled a Whig, but when the time came no Whig appeared. As it is in the county so it is in the town. We have had assurance after assurance, but in vain, ...

... his high position. He tern a Whig; he belonged to the ranks of the unpopular party; and filled his post with a totmgnished grace. did his best to be a good, honest, openhearted Whig, according to the fasluon of Jus rime Whig who, with aristocratic tastes ...