... Admissions of damaging truths are not in the Whig line. Far more characteristic is it of the party which the Derry Standard represents to find that journal making its own confession of the virtual extinction of the Whigs as a political power Ireland the basis ...

... to be surprised it. Figs do not come of thistles, nor grapes of thorns, and it would be manifestly futile to expect from a Whig the political views of an Irish Nationalist. But what might have been expected from a man of Mr. Russell’s ability is something ...

... address, strongly denounced the action of some of the leaders in Liverpool at the late Parliamentary election in supporting the Whig nominee, Mr Smith, in opposition to the advice of Mr Parnell. He also referred to the attack made on Mr P Murphy at the meeting ...

... of the Tulla Board of Guardians : That we decline to become participators in the humiliating farce of asking the “brutal” Whigs to release Mr. Parnell and the other political prisoners. The people here have a “firm grip” of the situation, and we on their ...

... This prediction was fulfilled to the letter. Had Mr. Shaw and those who followed his lead paid no heed to the crack of the Whig whip—had they, instead of filing into the Ministerial lobby, Changed sides for the nonce—the Ministerial majority would have ...

... arisen from the belief that the Orangeman is j Tory. The Orangeman is a true Whig, and it is truly a lusius natural that the Orangeman in Parliament votes with the Tory against the Whig. I learut from the Rio papers of to-day’s post that the new Coercion Act ...

... resignation if defeated. It only wanted this to raise the excitement to fever pitch, and now the great question was would the Whigs be firm ? During the three minutes’ grace, when one’s nerves are kept continually throbbing by the incessant jingle of the ...

... counsel, advioe, and action, contributing to the one common cud, and it was not the British people, divided as they were •into Whig and Tory place-hunters and spitting into one another’s faces, that could baffle the solid unity of twenty millions of Irishmen ...

... Dublin and the other towns of Ireland at the approaching elections is perfectly clear. It is, wherever possible, to turn out the Whig and Tory flunkeys, and to elect in their places men devoted to the national cause. A good deal of this work has to be done ...

... to meet him in his official residence was responded to by about Liberals, Radicals, and nominal Home Rulers. Steady-going Whigs like Mr. Whitfaread and Mr. Goscben, Radicals like Mr. Joseph iCowen and Mr. Dillwyn, and Home Rulers like Mr, Shaw and Mr ...

... if carried into effect, would certa J“ y sweep away every vestige of confidence. The truth is that British administrations, Whig and Tory alternately, have degraded the bench by packing it with flagrant political partisans ; and It now wants only this ...

... In some past sessions of Parliament has been far from satisfactory, but assuredly virtual declaration that is Gladstonite or Whig first, and an Irish party man afterwards—for that is what the statement attributed to him at the Irish members’ meeting on ...