... lost. The result of this campaign, it is well known, was the election of Zachary Taylor, the hero of the Mexican war, and the Whig candidate, and the consequent defeat of Lewis Cass, the regular Democratic candidate. It is unnecessary to refer particularly ...

... declared that the enemies of the Irish Church have his most cordial good wishes ; and, more than all, the dictator of the Whigs has declared that it is an abomination in his eyes, and that it must be razed to the ground. And so the Rochdale Quaker, who ...

... was. Mr. Edwards and Mr. Windeatt, solicitors, used to support •me. Party feeling then was different to what it is now. The Whig government was as much attacked by the Radicals as by the Tories, and a Radical member would have been as bad for the government ...

... 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 ...

... representatives of the people of Ireland—l will not Mr. John Lewis, sorter of the first class, has been promoted to say whether Whigs or Tories, Radicals or Repealers, but anybe assistant inspector of letter.carniers, Birmingham. Probate thing you like—let ...

... 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 ...

... Mr. BEALBS and their colleagues, and help to force the present Government from office, and bring in Mr. GLADSTONE and the Whigs, pledged to introduce a revolutionary measure of Reform, the Parliament of the future will redress all their wrongs, real and ...

... Englishman'). He was an Englishman who had special claims on their attention. He was one of the men of '4B, and at the hands of a Whig government he received two years' imprisonment for advocating justice to the people of England and Ireland. He thought that ...

... Germany by, the strengthening of Prussia. The words which that leader of the popular party uttered on.that occasion, The Whigs labour and the Tories execute, consequently do not by any means express what, according to his intention, they were meant ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... deficiencies such as, perhaps, no Minister ever had to bear in this country. After some thirty years of almost uninterrupted Whig rule the Conservatives have to begin afresh to make a navy and to organise an army. In such circumstances e.Government might ...