... Common gratitude and common humanity alike call out for a merciful consi- deration of his present state.-I am, &c., HUMANITAs. WHIG SECTARIAN AND DENOMINATION,1L EDUCATION IN IRELAND. SIn,-In these days when apostacy and ronezgadism from high principles are ...

... Lorid Pialmerstea .-Ihe;, greapt o~stagle, tq iall pro' gress-would produce a weaderful. tqfofrm :Bill.' He did not like the Whigs saying that jthe~y were the frieuds ofthe people, and thrb~tbe'Gouserva- tives had no interest it' the welfareonf the corn ...

... glorious band 'of Whigs of wi: hououred aud self-sacrificing age, whose great ex- plbits; strrligles, and gains cornpriase the Reform erA. The degeneruto Whiglings of 1 805, h.d they n6t lost allfrace of oonnectton and identity wvith the Whigs of the pIltny' ...

... the harness proving too heavy before its close. What then ? Scores of candidates offer them- selves to the electors, not as Whigs, not as adherents 1 of Earl Russell or Mr Gladstone, or as holding the o opinions of either the one or the other, but as sup- ...

... sThe people, the legi. titlate Sourceof political power, wasthe favourite I toast at Whig banquets; butnow, when the people E are no longer disposed to follow Whig dictation, I lt3 journalists pursue them with malediction I and execration' After racking ...

... lie down with the kid. Tory, Whig, and Liberal will all fraternise and, like brethren, dwell together in unity. Has the golden age come at length ?. It would almost seem as if it had. Do we not hear politicians, both Whig and Tory, speaking the same language ...

... means. Both seats must be kept. Edinbu rgh must be crushed, My Lord Advocate, forsooth, will not act. except with a Whig of the Whigs-that is, with one who' will do nothing himself, and will '~t trouble his Lordship by asking him to leave hisowvn per- ...

... nobleman whose savoir faire and dignified courtesy become the position of Leader of the House of Peers, and Lord Clarendon is a Whig of many traditions, and faithful to them all. But great as the merits and the claims of all these great men are, the Ministerial ...

... cleared away. It may be done thus. Suppose, for instance, that the supporters of Black and voncreiff are the Parliament House Whig clique, the Tories, and certain other parties whom I need 'not name, it is a well- known fact that not one of these parties ...

... 'oinot to vote at'all. ' This' is common ,!i ' . '. ; .i .- . . : , t , , ' h sese.. No; party is so.bound to punish. the Whigs asathe Cefise'rvatives, seeing that the former by a shameful and disbononorable ,trick'haveo for ' fIve years',iept s6'atso ...

... last hour ot the l polling he would have stood booby on the ilist. The result of this election will teach t the Edinbdrgh Whigs a lesson, by which it is Ito be hoped they will be benefited. It must be rather galling to the Lord Advocate to find himself ...

... something peculiar that he was one of the very few Tories who fol- lowed the example of the young Whigs of that generation in sitting at the feet of the great Whig Profeor of Moral Philosophy and Political Eeo- nomy. It certainly does not appear that he en ...