... 115 a witty Frenchman onco said, i dol asked the difference between Whigs ilia Tot :—” The Whigs aro Tories when and the Tories arc Whigs whin out, 'EA: only point on which they agree is which I ,„rty can gala tho support of the Pope's brass band, ...

... most determined prosecution and the severest punishment. This was Whig •' Justice to Ireland, and for this one-sided administration of the law we have to thank Mr Justice Qlfagan, who was then Attorney General, and who, although he never failed to give ...

... point of fact, the Whigs of were, in many important particulars, less liberal than the Conservatives of this day. Even in the matter of Free Trade, for which the remnant of the old Whig party are so fond of taking credit, it was not a Whig Government, but ...

... A GREATER DANGER THAN FENIANISM. UNDER this heading an article appeared in the Whig of Tuesday last, in which the writ ter labours hard to prove, that there is more danger of an outbreak among the Orangemen than of an invasion by the Feniaus. Of course ...

... Office is not an objectionable appointment under Whig ministry, though his administration Ireland was not associated with anything peculiarly grand or statesmanlike; but the Irish difficulty is excusable when Whig charge. Hi. Krdahip will much better his present ...

... I grant it. They say the Whigs postponed Tenant Bill until aftor the eleventh hour had sounded, because they hoped Ireland would come right course of time without the need of exceptional legislation. Well-meaning people— Whigs and Tories indifferently ...

... therefore, in thinking that the proposed union of the Conservative party and the Constitutional Whigs might work pretty well in the national interest. A Constitutional Whig is a safe man. His professed aim analagous to our own, though he takes a different way ...

... will do if the Whigs and the Irish Whig-Liberals allow them to try.— (Hear.) I think it is our bounden duty to give them this trial. I, tot one, win riot be found more ready in supporting a Conservative Government thaw I haye been Whig Government —(cheers) ...

... something, however, that will simplify and exemplify the working of Whig taxation For •very man watnun, and child—for every unit the population di'iiinisbed between 1841 and the Whigs levied additional pound annual taxation between ’ol and *6l on the residue ...

... Disraeli were well received; but as a Ministry, their responsibility began and ended with the scheme which proved fatal to (he Whigs. The country itself has not made its mind as to what is wanted ; the most sagacious of the Liberal party are decidedly against ...

... A FIVE FOLD RECANTATION. The Northern Whig is forced to eat the leek, and it is high time the slauder were strangled. We had hoped better onr cotemporary, than to allow any indiscreet scribbler to drag what ought bo a respectable journal into the mire ...

... it has had its Whigs and Tories, like other professions ; and its eminent men have been divided between the parties pretty fairly, as elsewhere. Just as Fielding ■was Whig and Smollett a Tory, Burke a Whig and Johnson a Tory, so the Whigs may claim Keppel ...