... RIOTING PORTADOWN. Belfast, Friday.—The Northern Whig »aj» there was a serious riot Portadawn Thursday, aud i'ue police were forced fire on the crowd. A boy, named Thomas Watson, was killed by a ball through the lungs ; and a uian, named Tiffney, was ...

... between Protestants and Roman Catholics, which was immediately checked by the police. breach of the peace has occurred.—Northern Whig. ...

... motives of many who supported the Duke of Cleveland's proposals. That the Duke of Cleveland, Earl Russell, Earl Grey, and other Whigs have always been ready to endow Catholicism is true, but they have given practical effect to their opinions at a most unfortunate ...

... when his party re-commenced business with the Liberal profits of Sir Robert Peel's Corn-law repeal. The Whig Government —for there were still Whigs even as late as 1848—had not much spirit, but they had enough to carry on Sir Robert Peel's free trade ...

... they are supposed the Conservative party. Lord Dufferis. tie Chancellor of the Daehy of iAncaster, is true • or rather true Whig. What many would contid* a reafc fault >■ the estimation of Liberal Ooverjvien' * great merit. Lord Dufferin set his face against ...

... nothing but the Bill, And deem good, by unfriendly hands If proffered, merely ill ? Must we so lump in black and white Our Whig and Tory views, As to bolt all that Gladstone bids, All Salisbury asks refuse ? Not so, says Punch, for one : not so Sure ...

... and tlho principle of ' levelling up, or II con- curront endowvment, which Mr. Disraeli's late Ministry borrowed from the Whigs. 5ho payment of salaries or stipends by the State to the Romish prieathood'is a thing which would neither be tolerable to the ...

... disturbed districts have, however, all received strong detachments of military and police. According to the report in the Northern Whig. the disturbance originated in interference by the constabulary with bonfire lit by some children, no doubt in celebration ...

... archbishops ssnd i 4 prelates. Lord l)erby and Lord Cairns, with their followers, ranged them- i selves' on the same side; and Whig lords, like Earl Russo]l, also added their votes to tlro majority, il thc hope and. expectation I that a similar concession ...

... present bill. The cave in which this idea prevails is » considerable one, and it includes, curiously enough, many of the old Whigs and a number of those advanced lay Radicals who hold as little possible in common with them. The existence of the idea ...

... Clause ; and although the battle raged fiercely till 1838, the bill, time after time, was rejected by the Lords, and the Whigs were finally compelled to pass their measure minus the principle which in Ireland was regarded a pledge of justice. The Corporation ...

... hwen the polling lasted fifteen days, and Lord Howick, the present Earl Grey, was the defeated candidate, and when eminent Whigs were thoroughly beaten both in this county and elsewhere, Lord (then Mr.) Brougham being defeated in Westmoreland, and Lord ...