... of Church property. The friends of Lord Mayo enjoyed a triumph in the House on Tuesday night when Earl Russell, the veteran Whig, rose to declare that the best thing that could done by Parliament would be to raise the social position and increase the moral ...

... _throughout _lie _contrived to convey a _false impression , and _succeeded so far as to deceive Lord _Halifax and some other Whig Peers into _helping him to get _tyhat he wanted for the disestablished Church . So _douot the hope was that _other and higher ...

... The minority seems to have been made up of the section of Conservative Peers who follow the Marquis Salisbury, and the Old Whigs as represented by Earl Russell and Lord Halifax ; while the majority was composed of the orthodox Conservatives who adhere ...

... independent _Conservatives below it . On the Liberal side there was a similar antagonism going on _lietwecn the old _. independent Whig Peers , _• who _were _faithful to their party traditions , and tho members of the Government , who _took their _stand _upon ...

... as convinced as ever that they are wise , though they cannot _but know that _for the moment they _look- foolish . The other Whig Peers , joined with these in this unlucky enterprise of concurrent endowment , have formerly been much more _amenable to ...

... fiercely denounced by them last autumn, and it was remark, able to see Earl Russell and Lord Halifax, with others of the old Whigs, go into the same lobby with the Marquis Salisbury in its support. The occupants of the other lobby were an equally diverse ...

... THE _FATAL RIOT _IN THE NORTH 0 V _IRELAND . _TUE yorlherit Whig _gives the _following account _of the deplorable _occurrence at Portadown on _Thursday night : — Though the whole affair _was moat _deplorable , it _is satisfactory to be enabled to say ...

... proSessional honour not _surpassed by anything of the kind among _ourselves . In position and spirit , they remind one of the Whig _lawyers of our Parliament-House _during the _long reign of tlie Tories in _the end of the last and beginning of the _present ...

... minority seems to have been made up of | the section of Conservative Peers who follow the ! Marquis of Salisbury, and the Old Whigs repre- j sented by Eaxl Russell and Lord Halifax ; while the majority was composed of the orthodox Conservatives who adhere ...

... fiercely denounced by them last autumn, and it was remarkable to sec Earl Russell and Lord Halifax, with others of the old Whigs, into the same lobby with the Marquis Salisbury in its support. The occupants of the other Idbby were an equally diverse family ...

... the Earl of Carnarvon, in support. In the division of last night the minority was largely composed of Liberals. All the old Whigs and many of the more advanced Liberals went into the lobby in favour of the Duke of Cleveland's amendment, leaving to the Ministers ...

... degree dignity as to elicit the respect of all classes and shades of opinicHi, but there is neither dignity nor profit in those Whig Ixirds who have usually been selected for the office. In the Church prayers, used in Ireland, there is one for the Lord-Lieutenant ...