... specific measure, repressive or remedial, to prevent the continuance of the present condition of things. Lord Lismore is a Whig and something more. His family name indicates that his race is of native blood. For many years he sat as the popular representative ...

... subject so pressing in its importance that he was confident it must at last force itself upon the attention of statesmen, whether Whig or Tory, a thing to be dealt with. (Hear, hear.) The poor-rate now comprised, as they knew well, many charges beyond that simple ...