... CORRESPONDENCE. DR. COOKE AND THE NORTHERN WHIG. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BELFAST SEWS-.ETTRE. SIR-I think the eyes of the Presbyterians of Ireland will now at length be opened to the prin. ciples and policy of the Northern JBlig. Its article last Saturday ...

... pro on r, iThursday. -r all I can gather the Whig Lords ;- intn to 'doft heir' beat to daninge ,it there; ,bus B s~iibatbW Will, hZe' remains to4 be ?? , put ,w pupon the. Opposition in ?? House by the Whig Lords to support lord Hasting- 1 ton was, ,I ...

... or nearly one-third of the whole number I , The Home Rulers, who were savage on Wednesday I at finding Mr. Bright and the Whigs in the majority ) against them on the question of aid to Irish fisheries, . received the right hon. gentleman rather coldly ...

... TChere are. 'any orthodor P-resbyteran w iho :believe as firmly'iis' any eitor, that iever~ fur- bished an article for the Whig,, that Henry Cooke.'s politicalcateer vwa sa mistake,'-who are yet proud of the man and- . admire ihis: genius, who twill not ...

... majority of the old Whig party vwalked out of the House saithout voting, the minority, sr.all: though it was, contained the names of seve- ral gentleretn lenpresenting not only numerous and iulluneuntial conitituzencies, Itut old Whig families who ditlikc ...

... casmes; and it goes a good r deal lower down even in point of rating than the Bills introduced by Mr. Gladstone or any o the Whig-Liberal :Ministries of recent times. Any man in Ireland who occupies a house rated at' or above £4, and who pays the poor-rate ...

... This was the proposal made to the Whig Government more than three years ago, and it was in accordance with the f suggestions of most of the witnesses before the - Committee of the House of Commons; but the e Whigs were too fond of economy to do any- ...

... this deliberate statement of the Duke of Argyll. Partisan ad- vocates of the late Government are never done extolling the Whigs for what they did for the occupiers of the soil; but they carefully keep iback from the people the true explanation of the ...

... everyone in Belfast and in Ulster; and the C answers will attest the truth of what we have been saying-that the object of the Whig was to insult the memory of Dr. Cooke; to sneer a't Mr. Johnston and the Orangemen; and to pro- i mote ill-will among the ...

... will be before thue House of Lords next week. Here (as I am in- I rmeed) it will be subjected to some criticism by t 4o old Whigs, who don't like the look of it, but who don't wish to offend the Court party. They possibly do not forget that changes and ...

... Whiteside, brought in a Bill to settle the land p, question, and which would have settled it on .every satisfactory terms; but the Whigs of Eng- 0- land and the Radicals of Ireland defeated the c, measure, desirous of keeping up the agitation, n-in the absence ...

... has received a much more favour- able consideration from the Conservative Go- vernment than from Mr. Gladstone or any of his Whig or Radical predecessors, and we are by no means without hope that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach may ere long see his way to ren- ...