... are not going to be parties to the gigantic jub in progress for letting in a Whig because he has married a Tory. The affair is all the worse because the other member is a Whig. In the present position of affairs every vote in the house is of vital importance ...

... departure of the population, and unite with the Whig Government, from which Ireland can hope not even for sympathy? Every legislative measure advocated by the Whigs has levelled a blow against Ireland. To Whig legislation we are indebted for the ruin of farmers ...

... dation, such as now animates the country through lother causes, would probably urge the Ministry to war. A Ministry must be very Whig and very weak to resist the appeal under such provocation. But, to judge by appearances, a crisis of the kind may be now arriving; ...

... mere question of party—whether Whigs or Tories shall hold office; it will not be a question' between peace or war, for the Conservative statesmen will maintain peace as long as peace is compatible with honour, whilst the Whig statesmen declare that honour ...

... Sotheron Estcourt. The arrival of Lord PALMERSTON at 20 minutes to five o'clock was hailed with a burst of cheering from the Whig and Radical benches, which was renewed when he withdrew to the bar and brought up the protocols and papers relating to the ...

... those who protested were all with the exception of the Chief Secretary, members of the Whig party (laughter). The Bishop of Down and Connor was the leader of the Whig party on the Protestant bench in Ireland and the Bishop of Derry did not fall short of ...

... that this humiliating policy, though looked upon as perfectly in keeping with the tactics of the Gladstones, Russells, and Whig-Manchester fraction of the Cabinet, is deemed very extraordinary on the part of Lord Palmerston. On the Continent the extraordinary ...

... Review, yet he thought that an article which appeared in it a few months ago was written in an impartial spirit. The unknown Whig who wrote it stated that of late years all legislation had gone against Ireland; and this was strictly true, though it had ...

... exceptional treatment ; while other taxes, less oppressive, have been remitted, this has been left untouched in successive Whig Budgets, and remaining untouched, it is a great public scandal. The motion, besides, only demanded that the tax should be ...

... supposed that the policy they have adopted is that which they approved. If they tell us that it is not—if Lord RUSSELL says, as Whig organs make him say, I thought we ought to speak Germany fair, but the Opposition journals were so warlike that I thought ...

... That the English nation, however, is gradually showing symptoms of a desire to pull against the leading-strings to which the Whig Ministry has hitherto confined it may, I think (speaking for ourselves, who are at too great a distance to judge from personal ...