... agriculturist to expect from our opponents (Hear, cheers, and interruotion). I will a--k you this question, what|have the Whigs done for agriculture during the last twenty-five years ? I assert most positively that all legislation has been in favor of ...

... between capital labour, the attack on the Irish Church. He refuted the charge of Conservative extravagance, and shewed that the Whigs were the Spendthrifts, and summed up his arguments with respect to the impolicy of despoiling the Protestant Establishment ...

... bill for the abolition of the qualification of Offices Act. When it came before the House of Lords Lord Derby, who was once a Whig and then a Tory, and now a Liberal-Conservative, said, Keep it on just to muzzle the Dissenters. Lord Chelmsford, on the ...

... The condition of Ireland is extremely unsatisfactory, and it reflects discredit the administrations, alike of Tories and Whigs, that after a dominant connexion with I that country nearly years, the English Governl ment of the present day has been compelled ...

... and doing another —(laughter). That party seemed to have higher object than that, as Lord Derby expressed it, of dishing the Whigs —(hear, hear). was very much to be regretted that in the present contest some over eager politicians had shown strong disposition ...

... another authority it was given as a robber. The Tories had stolen the rights of the people—hence their nickname. The meaning of Whig had been given as sour milk, but his answer to the Conservatives was, How oould you expect the milk to keep sweet after ...

... decision of the country, but less than one hundred he 11 fight for it again, and relying on his power of tachque, '•dish the Whigs again over bidding them in the matter of the Irish Church. Mr. Cardwell, who is a 000 l observer of events, remarks in his ...

... per lb. Beef 60s to 70s per cwt, Politics are now engaging the attention of agriculturists well as townsmen ; and the cry of Whig and Tory is as rampant as ever, especially now the Irish Church question is of such importance; farmers should be careful to ...

... that the Whigs had been playing with the interests of Ireland, and that they would do so again. He conclusively proved that the charge of reckless expenditure against the prestnt Ministry was unfounded, and that during the many years the Whigs have held ...

... represented. It was important for agriculture that the counties should be properly represented, for during the 25 or 30 years the Whigs had been in power what had agriculture ever got from them ? They legislated for the manufacturing, and neglected the agricultural ...

... nothing about, and was unable to answer. Mr. Wade, however, contended that it was the duty every member of parliament, be he Whig or Tory, to be acquainted with such subjects, and no elector should vote for any candidate that was ignorant of them, or that ...

... Jekyll uttered the following impromptu:— Conservatives of Hatfield House Were surely ' Harum-skarum ;' What could reforming Whigs do worse, Than knocking down old Sarum ?' Her ladyship liked the joke excessively, and always rejoiced in the sobriquet of ...