... middle classes, the favour was so barely requited now. It had been like an Irish reciprocity —all on one side. The aristocratic Whigs of Edinburgh who crowded reform platforms in 1832, had deserted the cause, and become practical Tories —Tories in all but this ...

... the Ist of October. Messrs. T. B. Horsfall, M.P., S. R. Graves M.P. and John Laird, M.P., will also be present. The Northern Whig of Tuesday says that the financial reformers of Ulster arc about inviting Mr' Gladstone to a banquet iii Belfast, in consideration ...

... force of much longer standing, and (if possible) still greater importance. To this branch of our Volunteers every successive Whig Administration has shown downright hostility. Their services have been slighted, their privileges have been disregarded ; and ...

... office, . to be placed in one of the niches of St. George's Hall, Liverpool. j According* to a letter published by. the Northern Whig, Mr. Isaac Butt, Q.C., has become a Roman Catholic, i and publishing pamphlet giving account of his reasons for doing so. It ...

... Livingston, Liberal linendraper, told the commissioners one John Adcock, who was paid three times by the Tories and once by the Whigs—and who (said Mr. Livingston) would rather vote for the devil than the Tories. Adcock got altogether £75, and at last voted ...

... of it, while his feelings and wishes are with those who are for holding out and dying in the breach. He differed from the whigs in deprecating all changes, good or bad; he differed from the (other) tories in conceding readily what lie saw to be inevitable ...

... proposed The Clergy, and, like Mr. Adderley, included the ministers of religion, but as the Watford meeting was chiefly of Whig complexion, while the Warwickshire was Conservative, the fact had the less significance. Lord Maldon, in proposing the Earl ...

... Russell actually otfered him ollice under his new administration. Bu 10 'n aloof from political bias, and enlisting in the Whig a ica band raised Lord Palmcrston's successor, are very different things : Lord* Stanley at once refused the proffer; and 111 ...

... suited to the present condition of those countries. One thing cct they are not founded the Constitution 1 herself. Concocted Whig Radical administration , those Constitutions have been framed rather upon the democratic model of the United States than that ...

... of Lord Cremorne to an earldom by the title of the Earl of Dartry, have received the same formal recognition. Mr. Brand, the Whig whipper-in, was a curious jumble of events, sworn (as we are also informed by the Gazette) of her Majesty's Most Honourable ...

... have entrusted the destinies of the country to the judgment of a numerical majority (cheers) ; would not have counselled the Whig party to reconstruct our institutions 011 an American model, or to profit in time from the Visdom the children of their loins ...

... without a controlling hand to guide them.' 'They arc evidently so much at a loss what line to take, and how to take it.' The Whigs are falling off from them; the Peelites are used up; Mr. Cardwell and the Attorney-General are all that remain of that clever ...