... been the foremost initiators and champions of a policy truly Liberal. Even Daniel O'Connell left historic record that the Whigs—with their three alliterative u r's—were but imitation and pinchbeck Liberals, while they were the real authors of Ireland's ...

... PROPORTION WHIG AND TORY PEERAGES. The charge which has been made against the Conservative governments making an undue proportion of peers admits of a very decisive answer. Mr. Disraeli, Lord Derby, and Sir Robert Peel held power altogether for nine years ...

... property of the Irish Church would go to the Landlords. In conclusion he said it had been the great and glorious privilege of the Whig party in past times to have secured civil and rereligious freedom—the leading men and statesmen of the country had felt, that ...

... bidding for political power, from whatever quarter might come; what he wished to see was some distinctive laid down, either Whig or (Hw, hw.J Hia lordship cooeluded his remarks by proposing, The Conservative Representatives West and East Worcestershire—a ...

... its Church, deeprooted in its hostility to Saxon Protestant rule, thanks to the ill judged encouragement of English statesmen Whig and Conservative, the miserable expedient of Maynooth College, and the apparently inextinguishable hatred of rival races. We ...

... attention to this argument. The name of Bukke must be cherished in the memory of many of our political opponents. He was a Whig of the Whigs—an almost ultra- Liberal when Liberalism was by no means fashionable; and, then, the book from which shall quote was ...

... without division. The only hostile criticisms upon it being those of Lord Kimi Lonl Chancellor. Lord Grey and Lord Westbury. two Whig peers, were strong in their censure of the Government reticence, and the Government policy in this particular matter. On Thursday ...

... and State, in which Whig though he was he believed. What a shining example is this of political consistency and firm regard of principle in despite of interest. The Whig Lords appear likely to set a good example to those ;he Whig commoners who have not ...

... so. Their reason is a selfish one. They are afraid lest their Bill should alienate their supporters of either extreme, the Whigs if it is too radical, and the radicals, if it is not an ultra-Liberal measure. This the true secret of their reticence. This ...

... MARRIED BY MISTAKE. A correspondent sends to the Northern Whig the following extraordinary story of a wedding:—On Saturday last marriage ceremony, attended with very unusual circumstances, took place in little town not twenty miles from Belfast A youthful ...

... will be sealed, and its abolition will be but question of time. The fourth course, postponement, is one to which some of the Whig Lords who dislike the Bill, notably Earl Bussell and Lord Westbtry incline, but it is not thought favourably of by the Opposition ...

... Bill in committee. Such are the opinions of the Duke of Richmond, Lord Stanhope, and other Conservative Peers, well several Whig Peers including Lord Grantille. The noble lord in moving the second reading tempted their lordships to agree to his proposH ...