... serious heed they promise, they will so, in all probabilty, only again bring forth some other abortion. These are examples of Whig incompetency to legislate for Ireland; let us now turn to the rival Tory faction. The Tory majority Mr. Shaw-Lefevre’s commission ...

... The Radical party, if there was such a thing (a laugh), had no such power, because they had never been in office, but the Whigs and Tories had made Ireland their sport. If there had been a Radical party—nay, if there had been twenty Radical members in ...

... candidates succeeded in almost every instance in beating their opponents. In Dublin, Drogheda, Limerick, Wexford, and elsewhere, Whigs and Tories alike have been taught a lesson which they will probably remember for some time. Not even by combining their forces ...

... out sufficient of the Whig element from the Corporation to make that body an entirely popular one. Mr. Patrick Connolly, who received the support of the national members, was defeated by Mr. Reilly, who was put forward by the Whigs. Mr. Connolly received ...

... editor of the Freeman Sm—Now that the above clause, earned by a member of the active party, has become famous, the Northern Whigs are trying claim the credit it six months afterwards for themselves. a resolution passed at Ballymoney, county Antrim, by the ...

... Government, however well inclined, could do much for Ireland; that the influence —the enormously preponderating 1 influence —of Whig and Tory landlords in both Houses of Parliament, rendered it impossible for any Minister just then to do for Ireland the things ...

... an advanced popular politician in preference to The O’Gorman Mahon, who, in consequence of his supposed affection for the Whigs, had absolutely to fly before the patriotic barrister It is needless to tell the sequel—how, notwithstanding his “most anxious ...

... nationality—of the imposition of a hated ruler on an unwilling people through the agency of English bayonets. This is what the Whig and Tory corporators want to have done when they propose to confer honorary burgessships on Sir Garnet Wolseley. No doubt they ...

... coercion policy the Government was worthy of censure or approval. It is not for us to concern ourselves with the conduct of Whigs and Tories in this matter, and we shall pass their conduct with the remark that if the majority of the West-British members ...

... brought against them of having left the party of Ireland for that of the Whigs or so-called Liberals. They cannot, therefore, be surprisod if they are henceforward regarded as Whigs by the majority of the Irish people, nor will It be very wonderful if, ...

... and declined to become the agent of Mr. Gibson and his friends in muzzling itself while leaving both the British factions, Whig as well as Tory, free to Jbark and bite, as Dr. Watts tells us that dogs delight to do. Yet even after the Tories knew beyond ...

... to see in our time. But oven the brief attempt of Duffy and Moore and Lucas in 1852 form Irish party, independent alike of Whig and Tory, utterly broke down. The average Irish Liberal member understood that he was free to shout semi-seditious patriotism ...