... was honoured by an invitation from his old friends to a feast in the capital, was formerly one of our Irish difficulties. The Whig Government of 1848 tried hard to convict him as a rebel. er at least as a seditious plotter against the commonwealth; but they ...

... LECT NEW. W8xX¥FoRD.—There are good reasons for believing that Sir James Power will contest the county in the Whig in- terest at the impending election. A correspondent informs us that he understands that party will put forward two candidates, but we ...

... There was more excitement last time, for then the Whigs intended to throw out the Tories, but if we are to judge from the Buckinghamshire mavi- festo, the are not now really intending to throw out the Whigs. Contests always bring out party feeling, but it ...

... without deriving corresponding benefits from foreign commerce. Of course, in the pages of Blackwood a diffe- rent review of Whig measures is not to be expected. The chapters of the story, Miss Majoribanks, are interesting as usual, Once a Week. Brapsuny ...

... will be to oust the present Ministry as soon as possible, and amendments to the address will be their modus operandi. As the Whigs are intensely patriotic, and correspondingly troublesome in Opposition, they would be sure to insist on keeping the new Government ...

... seats have not lately bad m There is always a talk of some rising Whig, who ie tobe the coming man, and who is put in With great facility for a pleasant snug borough. But these rising Whigs do not rise. They are amiable and accomplished, and moderately ...

... subject, and expressed their regret that the principle of Union rating had not been embodied in the Poor Law. But what the Whigs could not accomplish in 1834 they certainly would have failed to do in 1839, and so the question slept for a time. The evils ...

... :— Osborne has addressed the following letter “ GENTLEMEN,—Acting under the advice and with the concurrence of the leading Whigs and Liberals in your borough, I lately issued an address intimating my intention of a renewal of your support at the ensuing ...

... Ministers recant their Protectionist doctrines. Lord Derby bad come into office through the weakness and mischances of the Whigs, and he appealed to the country to discover whether he really possessed its confidence. The answer was in the negative ; he ...

... among the Irish peers by the votes of the House of Lords. At the last election the candidates were the Earl of Lis- towel, whig, and Viscount Gort, tory. Lord Listowel is in the prime of life. He obtained thirty one votes. ort, who is in his seventy sixth ...

... to the line of politics which has been followed by the Old Treland party, or perhaps we might more clearly say the moderate Whigs. Of course there are many diffe- rences of opinion in the ranks of the Liberals, and Mr. views often differed from those of ...

... honest vote—he was for returning men who could act together for the good of the country, who could afford to be independent of Whig or Tory Government, and who would vote against either the one or the other when the programme of tbat Association would be ...