... tenant. In the many land bills which for a period of several years have been brought Parliament successive Administrations, both Whig and Tory, the valfie of this custom has been fully recognised the proviso which recurs every one of them, “ That nothing herein ...

... party —we cannot conceive for moment that they -will tolerate the idea of being regarded as the exclusive possession of the Whigs, and live contented under the dictatorship of any statesman. The great questions that for the next quarter of century, probably ...

... answer their own mean ends. Finally, when the Democratic party became too powerful thus to be played with any longer, the Whigs were once more ready w their pitiful attempts to make capital out of Reform, and they preferred that which Mr Bright forgetful ...

... Administration. These two questions, then, of Parliamentary Reform and foreign policy were the two questions on which the Whigs founded their distrust of Lord Derby, and their own claims to public confidence. The sequel is instructive. Their total failure ...

... 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 ...

... so the establishment of a National Debt was a robbery of posterity. The Whigs may have the credit of both. Our present National Debt dates from the reign of that idol of all Whigs, William 111. The Dutchman found that his English subjects were not likely ...

... enabling the regiments to muster the shortest possible notice. An Irishman in California.— A correspondent of the Belfast Northern Whig, writing from San Francisco says Among the residents of San Francisco the Ulster metropolis is well represented, and from thence ...

... in the Irish Church Bill it is totally different, for the preamble if unamended would entirely defeat the proposals of those Whig Peers who desire to reform the Irish Church, not by pulling down, but by levelling up; not by disendowing the Irish Church ...

... Lord Ellesmere in Mohave t”. to revive an old family title. exc . c ® ned promotions in the peerage, though greater °* on the Whig side appears still the two Bory inspection. But we have reckoned and the es o btaiued by “plain John Campbell,” Mr Williau ...

... very good reasons for its rejection or postponement, and would doubtless attract to the Conservative standard many of the old Whig Peers who, while anxious for the pacification of Ireland, are by no means favour of hasty and ill-considered legislation. Gladstone ...

... foremost initiators and champions of a policy ‘‘truly Liberal.” Even Daniel O’Connell left it on historic record that the Whigs—with their three alliterative were but imitation and pinchbeck Liberals, while they were the real authors of Ireland’s barbarous ...

... spoliatiqp, which touches the pocket of every Irishman, is sure to increase. It is quite common to hear the remark that the Whigs are selling the country” once more. The Church papers point out to that party of Protestants here who were in favour of the ...