... sneeringly but truly upbraided with poverty. Some years ago an Irish «• Cawtholio Whig member—a brother of lordappealed to his master, Palmerston, for bread. The Whig Premier knew that the member had faithfully obeyed the whip with which such fellows ...

... Unfortunately .it not a. laughing matter for Ireland. It Is quite possible that the Land Act may be mended in the direction the Whigs propose that the block in the courts may in time be overcome that much better arrears clause than the idiotic one now disfiguring ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... Mangan is as truly and legally mayor of Drogheda at the present moment as he was on the 28th of February last. The Conservative-Whig junto has only succeeded in setting up an anti-mayor in the person of Patrick Reilly, the Milesian. Meanwhile Aiderman Mangan ...

... rent” manifesto was the smallest of his faults. In doing so had the honour of standing almost alone in the midst of Tories, Whigs, and Home Rulers, and behind the backs of men who were not free to defend themselves, and had, besides, the audacity act in ...

... predicted, would happen Monday afternoon. The Ministerial whips, it was stated, had been reliably informed that a number of the Whigs intended to offer strong opposition to Mr. Gladstone’s motion concerting the Lords’ Inquiry into the working of the .Land Act ...

... inquiry into the operation of the Land Act had been industriously circulated, and had a visible effect both on recalcitrant Whigs and Tories of combative tempera The truth is that the very idea of general election just now makes Urge number these gentry ...

... they are ever ready to meet any amount of hostility directed against them from the hereditary enemies of their country—the Whig and Tory parties : but I will toll yon what wounds and saddens and, I may say, disspirita them—it is to find themselves and ...