LAST WEER'S LIE.
gullibility of Liberals is unfathomable; otherwise the impu- dent pretence that the creation of Peers, announced last week, was for the purpose of strengthening the Reform party, could not have been credited for a day. But we find from ninny provincial news- papers that it was bailed as evidence of the Ministerial determina- tion at length to adopt an Anti-Tory policy ; and this upon no better authority than the assertion of a Downing Street paragraph. The Peerages were given to pay off old political obligations. Lord MELBOURNE saw that he had no time to lose : he had secured a Peerage for his brother, and a Commissionership for his nephew, • and was preparing to take leave of Downing Street, when he pre- vailed upon the Queen to create another batch of Lords. The idea of strengthening the Liberal party, or pursuing a Liberal policy, never entered his imagination. But the Whigs could not even die with truth on their lips. False motives were alleged for their last act.
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