... and would have precipated them- selves on the soldiery out of sheer incapacity to understand political facts. The Northern Whig, we see, thinks it very bard that Irishmen should be called children, and so it may be, but it is not hard that Fenians should ...

... the Whigtownamed Liberal—tide. We are. on the • think that there not in the rumour, although it certainly has currency among Whig political ci.cle. which imports at le«t that the questiou ha, been seriously agitated,—£amiurji Ctnrant. y ...

... FENIAN ARREST IN BELFAST. The Northern Whig has received information of the arrest of a supposed ‘enian in one of the suburbs of Belfast, being the first case of the kind in that town. The facts are as follows 10 o’clock a man giving :—On Sunday morning ...

... and burying a measure intended from the beginning to be killed, he has been maintained in power because it was believed by Whigs and Conservatives that he was the most teliable obstacle to the passing of any act of Reform whatever. To say that he began ...

... When I rose this morning I felt my head two or three times to see if it were on me, for I was alarmed at a paragraph in the Whig, stating that a Fenian had been arrested in Belfast, that he had just come from America, and had avery jaded appearsnee when ...

... the fortunes and supported the policy of the Whig party. Between 1841 and 1846 Lord Palmerston was in opposition. In December, 1845, some advances were made to him, but the hostility of one of the leading Whigs rendered any final arrangement im- possible ...

... loyally ander Lord Russell as he had served ander Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne, and if he was the means of throwing out the Whig Ministry it was under circumstances of great provocation. His fidelity to his colleagues has, indeed, become proverbial, and ...

... something peculiar that he was one of the very few Tories who followed the example of the young Whigs of that generation in sitting at the feet of the great Whig Professor of Moral Philosophy and Polical Eco- nomy. It certainly does not appear that he entered ...

... work in him. He would probably make an acceptable leader to 4 large proportion of the party, particularly to thorough-bred Whigs, and he would not be unpopular in the country. I¢ would, howover, argue no disrespect towards Lord Russell if the claims of ...

... Peelites and Whigs which gave us Lord Palmerston’s government becomes a junction of whigs with Mr. Gladstone’s friends. The secret power lies there now, ag it lay in the time of Pitt, in a union between the liberal aristocracy or hereditary whigs and tke ...

... that this bad been put all square since the Prince of Wales had favoured the country with two boys under the auspices of the whigs.” After this exquisitely well- timed sally, Lord 1 re to criticise the correspondence between the British and Am erican governments ...

... only through the eyes of those who are bound to him by the ties of personal intimacy family connexinn. He was, and is, a pure Whig. Well skilled in what may be called the dead lore of the English Constitution, he utterly failed to grasp that living spirit ...