The agitation of the political world is not confined to
the immediate election ; another general election is kept in view, even within the year. The Whig papers began it, by earnestly exhorting electors to register, which they cannot do for the more common kinds of qualification after the 20th of this month. The Tories have taken the alarm, and the Times this morning echoes the exhortation ; exclaiming, that " the reckless and desperate Whigs" " are actually contemplating already another dissolution of Parliament." A further meaning is given to the article in which this exhortation is conveyed, by one which stands immediately before it. The Standard had sounded the note of alarm, and had discussed the alternative of Sir Robert Peel's being driven from office or forced to sacrifice the agricultural interest, if he be not supported by a powerful majority. The Times lectures the Standard for its fore- bodings; professing to have no fear on the subject : Sir Robert could only be driven from office by his majority in the present Parliament dwindling down from sixty or seventy, its assumed amount, or by the impossible exercise of the Royal prerogative ; for Sir Robert will not
resort to a second dissolution within the year, "or any other similar insanity."
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