... saw, in the porseou- *t tion of Father Lavelle, nu attempt to foren upon the il country tho anti-national and ?? policy of e Whig ecolesiastics-apolicy which they repudiated- r and declared that the people of Ireland would no f longer be led by the clergy ...

... FLAX AND POLITICS. WE copy the following from Saturday's W~hig:- 44EXTENSION OF FLAX CULTU1RL IN THE SOUTH-_ We understand thit William Lane Joynt, Esq., agent of Lord Annally, has been in Belfast for some dsye past, gaining information as to flax cultivation ...

... has been appointed. In polities he is of ir the Whigling school. If there were a Whig party E still in existence, hs woul' of course be a Whig, but ni as the great Whig party has become nothing more at than a little association of Whiglings, the noble ...

... opportunity, and opposed the Bill, promising a larger and a dif- ferent measure of their own. The whole Radical tail followed the Whig leaders. They knew that if Lord Derby's Bill were passed there would not be another Reform measure for twenty years, at least; ...

... the Poit-otlice, and the ing result of their deliberations was that IHertford.lji5 was admitted to le infallibly lost to the Whigs aul their heirs and successors for many years to conic, )N The panic among the vwhips is describecd as inmot ludicrous. ...

... a policy of destruction. Whatever might come of it, Lord Derby's Cabinet was doomed, and what did I come of it was this . Whigs, Palmerstonians, t Peclites, and Radicals divided office among t themselves. The Pope's brigade wias left ' out in the cold; ...

... Mcse~l,. Mr. O'Hagan, Sir C. O'Loughlen, Lord Proby, Mr. F. Russell, and Mr. Staepoole. The majority of these gentlemen arc Whig hacks. If hut half the numbers had proved false to Ministerial ellurements, and true to their constituents and their counltry ...

... to both Bills, but inr less to the Coumnnissioners' than to tbe othors, and lie iighlt mention that, besides being the only Whig in the Corporation, lie hadh been for several years a 4Witer Commissioner. He could positively contradict tho assertion that ...

... true Conservative opinion and feeling in Ireland, coincident with the declining influence and wido-spread unpopularity of the Whig-Rladical party. In the face of an ap- proaching gonoral election your committee desire earnestly to enlist in favor of the ...

... satisfaction, and consequently to court the verdict of a fresh tribunal would be little short of Ministerial insanity. The Whigs have clung to w place and power by persevering at all hazards in tb what maybe termed a trimming policy. So long tf as they ...

... mind of Mr. Gladstone. The on ,at that the siieech of the Chancellor 7as nothing m ri-re nor less than a challenge .to the old Whig party es in the Cubinet, vwho are hept together by the tn fsil tenure of the Premier's life, and who m weald throw Mr. G'nladton ...

... the effect that the policy of the present Government, w begun thirty years ago by the Prime Minister, and enforced by every Whig Government, has led to con- I stant wars, which has culminated in the burning of I liagosima and the massacres at Foochow ; ...