... whole'strength of the Whig party. The Ballot, therefore, whatever else it did, would effectually dish the Whigs.” They have long been fading awav, something like the golden pippin. Mr. Thackeray said that though he often wished he was a Whig he never saw one ...

... their power to ascertain how man has voted intends to vote, whatever secresy may enshroud the transaction. For many years the Whig policy has been to rule Ireland through the priests, ' and Mr. Gladstone’s Government, in their blind ignorance, imagine that ...