... deceive him as to any such meeting as he refers to having taken place in 1829, The only meeting held about that time by the Whig party on the subject of Reform, of which I sm aware, or of which I can learn anything from Lord Ruseell, was one of the members ...

... had voted for the Whig candidate (cheers and laughter). Since he (Mr. Hardy) had become connected with the borough it had much improved (laughter) If a Whig now attempted to represent it he must bribe heavily (a laugh). If the Whigs would only let the ...

... which, although nominally there was voting of scot and lot, he had absolute and entire control. It happened also that a wealthy whig peer was desirous of increasing his political influence, and requested me, then young man and without the slightest connection ...

... at the next division the Clintons su ported Mr. Ward Hunt's resolution for a rateable franchise; then the son of the late Whig whipper-in, who was recently promoted to a baro- netey led a party in opposition to his father's patrons to support Sir Rainald ...

... AN ACTION FOR LIBEL. An action against the Belfast Northern Whig for publishing, as a reprint from the Daily qurmgk, an article in connection with all lribuz“n the last elet':ltmor the borough of Lot . t;:iuez:nt:aed at terminating in a verdict for the ...

... are we ? And here, that I may be the better understood, permit me to say a very few words of myself. I was born and bred a Whig; was zealous partizan of the Reform Bill of 1632. A Conservative ever since—a Conservative ; for I would not then,' as I will ...

... see. But in politics it is impossible to barricade oneself against cynicism. Can the leopard change his spots, or the great Whig families cease to regard office as their appanage? We cannot at once believe this, and unfortunately the present charming spectacle ...

... of success was left unused. But all failed because Mr. Gladstone's object was too transparently veiled ; while some of his Whig colleagues and followers were as desirous of giving him as indirect a snub as they appear to have been of keeping the question ...

... the few links still remaining that connect the Belfast merchants of a past generation with the present (remarks the Northern Whig). About seventy years ago, our old friend began business life as an assistant to his uncle, Mr. James Wallace, who was then ...

... so numerous that they could have carried the election, and Mr. Lincoln was elected because the Democrats were divided. The Whigs met at Baltimore and nominated Mr, Bell, a slaveholder, who would give no opinion on the question of extending slavery to the ...

... ve party, and inconsistent with their treatment of every Reform Bill that has been brought into Parliament since the great Whig measure of 1832. Lord Derby showed, by a succinct narrative the history of the various Bills, that there is not the slightest ...

... Disraeli sit tamely under what looks like mere party conduct in a man, with all his faults, hitherto deemed inaccessible to Whig party feeling? In the very first sentence Mr. Bright received his quietus. He is defending the Liberal monopoly—that (delivered ...