... A MODERN ENOCH ARDEN. The Belfast Northern Whig relates the following strange story:— Twenty years ago, a young man named Smith, belonging to this town, got married, and after spending two years In the neighbourhood he went to seek his fortune America ...

... fell. It all because in the Whig party lies the centre of gravity of Liberal politics England, became Mr. Gladstone had swerved from that party towards the Manchester school, and because the bulk of the nation, being still Whig, therefore rejected him. ...

... What he did fore was to cut down the navy estimates from first. The extravagant Tories, to make forjt « deficiencies of. the Whig-Radical party, had been spending at the rate of £11,000,000 a year, and were actually going to spend £10,400,000. 1869-70 Mr ...

... the other were threatening very life. For the past five years the threats °' those foes have under the encouragement afforded Whig -Radical ascendancy been loud constant and confident. We have heard on all sides that disestablishment was only question of ...

... when carried in the month of March, 1774, was received with general approbation even among the more moderate mem' bera the Whig Opposition. A hundred years have passed away, aud the revolutionary current which was destined to receive such an impetus from ...

... tim:s p at the Act. It regarded forty fifty ago setting xouclry sg»inst town, the -landed gentry the iote.*c:t, Tory pgainet Whig, md two parties were arrayed against each ether, one charging the other with bidding for popular favour order to carry a measure ...

... after we've burned 'em. THERE IS A TIDE THE AFFAIRS MEN. The Kdinluruh Review, its article on the past and future of the Whig party, says that the Conservative party has been brought inio pj*er by a a strong tidal wave. Mr. Gladstone, on this being ...

... Gladstone's personal convenience there. I think they are wrong there. The present generation has not had much experience of the Whigs in Opposition, but what Lttle has seen of them hitherto, rebus tn arduis, corresponds with the tradition that they are restless ...

... stated that the country did net wish for a Reform Bill every five years, and that they ought net troubled with one directly the Whigs were out of power. Judging from the immediate past nothing could be more probable, or natural, or likely when they had Conservative ...

... had the satisfaction of laying the foundation stone of one sinca erected. Ia polities the deceased gentleman was formally a Whig, but had latterly shown some leaning towards Coasarva- tism. He was 2 member of the Church of Englaad, and wes a trustee of ...

... fringe, the spawn of lust and lies, But spare sneers, hyper- if not hypo-critic: Love of the horse in England never dias. Whigs, Tories, foes else, friends in this we find— | The Turt’s Blue Riband doth all parties bind! (From FunJ | A Officer (to a heavy ...

... with the making practical suggestions to getrid of the difficulty, It was left to Mr, Lowe to expound the new policy of the Whigs, which is to go in for the 25th clause on the ground that its operation is so infinitesimal that it is not worth for. Mr. Forster’s ...