... election just held five Whigs and one Cmservative retired. Three Conservatives were elected for the western ward, and the Whigs were allowed to walk over for the eastern ward.' The corporation now consists of 20 Conservatives and four Whigs The present mayor ...

... increasing strength of the reviving popular movement, at the head of which the Whigs had placed themselves. The history of this period shows the nature of the connection of the Whigs with the Reform question. Originally they w9re staunch upholders of the old ...

... witness not often produced before an election committee —a peer of the realm, a proprietor of a Whig borough, a prominent member of a Whig cabinet, a real live Whig duke, with all his blushing honour., thick upon him. Nor is this by any means all. The mere ...

... preferred a gradual to a sudden and violent extension, of the suffrage, he should have .been thankful if the Tories and exclusive Whigs had seen fit to accept the very restricted measure of reform proposed by the late government. He had been convinced, however ...

... I originally commenced public life as a Whig or under Whig patronage (hear, hear). Gentlemen, 1 never possessed other political feelings than those I now profess. I never received a place or patronage from a Whig government. I honourably won my position ...

... The Roman clergy in Ireland regard him as the unofficial mouthpiece of the late Government, as the man who can terrorise the Whigs into granting anything he chooses to demand in their own behalf. And thankful as they are for such concessions as the assassin ...

... knowledge, done to what in Ireland is termed the gentleman farmer, is quite true, and that, too, by some of the most noisy Whig sticklers for tenant-right in the House of Commons; but those injustices could be perpetrated with perfect 'impunity, because ...

... Waterford, under the presidency of Bishop O'Brien, been held, and a determination arrived at to support Mr. De La Poer, the Whig Ultramontane candidate. But clerical opposition cannot effect as much here as in Tipperary, and the success of Captain Talbot ...

... Commercial, Carroll Record, Thibodaux Sentinel, and Baton Rouge Advocate; the Jacksonville Clarion, Vicksburg Herald, Vicksburg Whig, and Natchez Democrat; the Charlotte Democrat, Raleigh Progress, Raleigh Sentinel, Wilmington Journal, and Wilmington Dispatch; ...

... nomination system root and branch, leaving behind only a few boroughs in which the influence of great proprietors, chiefly Whigs, was powerful if not absolute. Every borough with less than 2000 inhabitants was disfranchised; every one with less than 4000 ...

... leaders of the Whig party. He knew that the supporters of the late government were largely of opinion that the Radicals were going too far, and be thought there ought to be a public declaration to that effect on the part of the leaders of the Whig party. He ...

... disman's political franchise should depend solely upon gusted with Whig incapacity. When the Couserva- the fact of his being A householder at a certain tive party fell pieces the Whigs were internally as , rent, while we can imagine a hundred' proofs of ...