... Neither the report of the commissioners nor the recommendation of the committee of which Lord Derby was chairman, induced the Whigs, then in office, to take up the question. It was left to private enterprise. Parliament had, in 1847, when the famine visited ...

... addition to all he had previously obtained. Hoping that this may in some degree help to expose the real patriotism of the great Whig magnates, I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, March 27. A MOULDY BOOKWORM. Collins's Peerage, Vol. I.—John ...

... O - RY, OLD WHIG, AND WHIG - RADICAL. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,—For some time past men have found it difficult to distinguish a Conservative from a Liberal ; or, u I should put it, a Tory from an old Whig—i.e., a Whig Oligarchical and a Whig ...

... as the rights of a nobleman to scree, to be invaded through any mere motives of state policy? • Tai' is .no struggle between Whig and Tory, but, the attack of a foreign priesthood on the very foundations of the British Constitution; the bid of a disappointed ...

... both occasions he was met by the strenuous opposition of the Whig government who succeeded in preventing any vote being taken upon them. In the debate on the last occasion Sir George Grey, the Whig Home Secretary, said, Her Majesty's government deem it their ...

... and Ballymena go unrepresented. The Northern Whig opposes some of the details of the measure upon other grounds, the chief being that a member is not given to the Queen's University. This omission the Whig considers all the more remarkable as the government ...

... possible to the Radical conscience. Not a syllable was uttered last night 'by Liberal leaders. Only Mr. BOUVERIE that Whig of Whigs, superlatively ttaditional was put up. He was not 'welcome to the house; he was not cheered; he fulfilled an ungracious ...

... accompanied by impudence. The Presqe, which informed us the other day that the Berkeleys, the Bedfords, and other great Whig families were the main props of the Tory party, now takes upon itself to assert that the paper on Sadowa in the Revue des Deux ...

... volens facilisque sequetur. To conclude, it is no use sending out petitions, which may in some places, as here (where later Whig principles prevail), only serve to excite a counter movement, till the latent spirit of English anti-Romanism be fairly evoked ...

... devoting the last years of his life to the attempt to repair the mischief he did in his prime, he has thoroughly appropriated the Whig plan of dealing with the Irish Church. In power he says nothing about it; out of office he makes the necessity of its abolition ...

... what they would call an endowment of Popery is more bitter than is felt by the members of the Established Church; and the Whig ministry would certainly not imperil their precarious hold of office by bringing in a measure which would provoke the hostility ...

... all interest in this matter. The Northern Whig mentions a rumour that the Roman - Catholics mean to have a procession at Rathfriland on St. Patrick's-day, and that the Orangemen threaten to prevent it. The Whig suggests the propriety of the immediate attention ...