... ecclesiastical despotism of the Remish hierarchy, and the knavery and deceit of English political parties-both Conservative and Whig -Your obe- dient servant ROBERT STAPLES. Dunmore, June 28, 1869. THE IRISa CHURCH BILL TO THE EDITOR OF THE BELFAST NEWS-LETER ...

... aristocracy, and wvhich has hitout tremendously in particular directions, gave offence, among otheis, to Lord Carrington, a young Whig nobleosan but lately called to the House of Peers. This gentleman, armrd with a huntivg-whip, calledl at the club an d asked ...

... Lord Westbury. I have heard es it stated by more than one that Earl Russell will se go into the lobby against Ministers. The Whigs ig are thoroughly alarmed at the confiscation policy of d. the Government, and disappointed at the answer x. which Ireland ...

... Calmly reviewing the position this kingdom occupied, Lord -Stanley was bound to be generous, because there is no doubt the Whigs blundered, through Earl Russell, when they shut their ears against the remonstrance of Mr. Adams, and allowed.a pri- vateer-or ...

... to a matter which, however trifling in itself, I has been a good deal dwelt on in some quarters I - observe it stated in the Whig that I have never been in Ireland before. I have only to say, so far is this from being true, that Ireland is my na- tive country ...

... Protestants of I n Belfust do not form a united Orange and Protestant of Association in each wvard, all I can say is, the Whigs I within twelve months will have possession of the . Itown. They will put out 'Mr. Johnston, and keep y, Mr. 1l'Clure in. (Cries ...

... A business was commenced that he did not look upon T. this as a political meeting. They did not comea two there either as Whigs or Tories. but merely as in- NI dependent electors of Dock Ward to discharge a rule public duty- (applauee)-that duty being ...

... about to be made in India in al- most all branches of the public service, and much fear that they have been made on the true Whig penny.wise-and-pound-foolish principle. Certain we are that some of them are dictated by a short. sighted regard for the exigencies ...

... to hear that he T had taken the advice of his friend, Sir J. D. Cole- 1e j ridge, and had swallowed the leak with genuine a Whig aptitude for such operations, by Iaccepting the inevitable. To accept the inevitah'e, is the last slang phrase for submitting ...

... and some of them forcibly expelling the reporters of the Con- servative NVew s-Letter, and applauding those of the Radical Whig. So far as the Nfews Letter was concerned, this did not matter much, but he was sorry that Orangemen should have been so misled ...

... evening, to stamp out the expression of free opinion. The chairman, on behalf of the club, has tiougbt fit to publish in the Whig a resolution pretended to be passed by the club. As, under the ciroumatauces, ido not consider that resolution strictly legal ...

... friends and home, and find them- D. selves strangers in a strange land. But re- by 0 ?? trenchment is a prominent feature of the Whig s programme; and, true to the instincts of that party, the humbler classes are the victims. Re- dB trenchment is a good thing ...