... con- tinned. The plaintiff was Richard Dawson Bates, and the F defendant Francis Daizell Finlay, proprietor of the c Northern Whig; and the cause of action was an o alleged libel contained in that paper. Counsel for plaintiff-Mr. Palkiner, Q C., and Mr. ...

... Assizes, for that you, on the 27th day of Feb. e ruary last,at Belfast, did knowingly and maliciously publish in the Nort/eern- Whig newspaper a certain tscandalous libel against the said John Rea, )Iand did,with others atpresent unknown, unlawfully aconspire ...

... Parliament will thus, before the close of July. be brought into direct collision; and the well. ventilated rumour to-day in Whig and Radical circles is that, should Lord Cairns rally his followers in aumbera sufficient to paralyse the efforts of the Com- ...

... election money-which means, of course, the price of his vote ! The muni- cipal contests are also carried by corrupt means, and Whigs and Tories appear to bribe alike. The report of Mr. Baron Martin upon the late election ?? stateof affairsevenmore flagrant ...

... history that | in ?? tinme afterwards, and before the affair hai l been finally settled, the Conservative had given place to a Whig Ministry, and Lord John Russell, ' r has ing succeeded the right hoe. baronet as Priaie Miuister, placed a banger-on of the ...

... troduction of politics into the question of an ap- pointment of the kind-they should not ask them. selves whether a man was a Whig or a Tory. He (the chairman), as they all knew, was a Tory, and he was not ashamed to say so-(hear, hesr)-but, on the other ...

... upon our country's commerce and upon the popular creed, the enactors of the penal laws, the author of the Durham letter-every Whig and every place-hunter, from Earl Russell to Mr. Gladstone, raised the hoarse and hollow cry of Justice for poor Ireland. ...

... member acting with Mr. Kirker at any election. I I never knew who Mr. Kirker voted for, but I don't , think he ever voted for a Whig. I don't think there is any reason to call him a turncoat. l put Mr. M'Clcre up mysef and carried tim.Mr. ?? was proceeding ...

... 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 religious free dom. By a wise intuition the leading men and statesmen of the ...

... taste of to-day would think intolerably fulsome, Some coolness sprang up be. tween Mr. Barnes, the editor, and certain of the Whig chiefs. one day while Brougham was sitting in Chancery he received the following letter from Lord Althorp :-Dear Brougham-What ...

... you ''fear boys with boys, anid beyond that ve circle thu threats of our Radical contemporary 0v perish. For they wrong the Whig who speak an of it politically as weak, because it is weakness be itself; and they judge of it unfairly who describe to it ...

... Aughrim, and the Boyne; and in these days Pt of misrepresenting history it is as well to remind cd you that, although the Whigs did some service to I X Protestantism, they had then, as now, a strong r, disposition for misgoverning our unhappy country ...