... disturbed districts, however, all received strong detachments of military and police. According to the report in the Northern Whig, the disturbance originated in an interference by the constabulary with a bonfire lit by some children, no doubt in celebration ...

... his family or party. His belief in his party, his family, and himself appears to have been profound. Though a and consistent Whig through life, Mr Grey seems ve Lord Russell for forming his Ministry is wnhout Lord Grey, and dismisses him thus in 1852 : ...

... buying them; hut he did not think the Catholics would accept it. Lord Derby had said they must “muzzle” the Catholics. These old Whig Lords and antediluvian politicians in the House of Lords durst not put on the muzzle; so they tried to put on a silver chain ...

... expenses, he either showed very little acquaintance with the subject, or very poor statecraft. If he did not like to say that the Whigs, who are making capital out of a show of retrenchment, were too much afraid of their ignorant and clamorous supporters to make ...

... THE RIOTS IN IRELAND. Belfast (Wednesday Night). The Xoi'lhern Whig says there has been very little disturbance to-night, and the town generally is quiet. A few arrests for stone throwing have been made. WIMBLEDON RIFLE GATHERING- Wimbledon, Thursday ...

... it be obtained, we shall be solely indebted to the determined position taken up by the Conservative Peers, and those of the Whig Peers who dared to assert their independence of the trammels of party. The Grand Duke of Baden is seriously ill. The funeral ...

... seem natural enemies—and then it is so simple a remedy, a remedy so worthy the time-serving compromise that is the spirit of Whig administration, to make a small compensation to the landlord and ask him to go somewhere else. Since, as regards Ireland, at ...

... be a considerable defection from his following before long we hold to be certain. The open rebellion of the Constitutional Whigs in the House of Lords is only symptomatic of a state of feeling which prevails in the Lower House as well, though the pressure ...

... question is to be seriously raised, it will probably be the first point on which Mr Gladstone’s majority will fail him. The Whigs who were not unwilling to aid in the destruction of the Irish Church will not readily act with the advanced Liberals” who are ...

... grounds, than a nominal Cliristian who in the spirit of am-I-my-brother’s-keeper,” complacently passes on the other side. A Whig Duke would not think it necessary to stop and inquire what right he had to go and preach whiggery in a Tory county. Nor should ...

... wom-out old aristocrat, he’ll have to get rid of some of ua. And Lord Clarendon’s chief offence must be, I think, that he is a Whig, and. a great nobleman. Lord Hartington regarded with almost as much disfavour by the Radical section of the Cabinet, and for ...

... rod into their pallid surface. His head was small and bulletshaped, covered with a dark, dead hair that clung to scalp like a whig, or as though sleeked with oil. His face was expressionless and cold; mouth small but cruel looking, especially when speaking—a ...