FROM A CROAKER IN THE COUNTRY. AT this distance from
the scene of action, it is not safe to speak of any thing as certain ; and yet I think it looks as if my words had come true, and that we are not only without a Government, but without the means of forming one. Or is Lord GREY So low in the public esteem that he may be replaced by a Nobody, and that Lord ALTHORP being replaced by Anybody, the rickety concern may go on a while
longer without our feeling any loss ? This is Master BROUGHAM'S plan. " Go to," saith he, " we, the Government, can do very well
without Gime and ALT11011r. Such men may be easily replaced ; will be; arid Juste Milieu—the system of allnhings-to-all.men, or neither- one-thing-nor-the-other, of which I, II. BROUGHAM, Lord VAUX, am the inearnation—shall last my time." So be it ; SO be it, at least, if my Spectator correspondent judge well in supposing that a Ministry is good in proportion as it is despised. But if this notable scheme of the Chancellor should fail, what then ?
Shall it be Weereseerox and his set? or PEEL, a Lord and Pre- mier, with Spitfire STANLEY for leader of the Reformed ? or Lord DURHAM, with open war between the two Houses? To each of these
proposals, all sane men answer—That will never do. What will do?— Nothing that one can think of promises well. And why? Because
the Juste Milieu system has brought matters to such a pass, that, turn
which way you will, you see a revolution coming. Weeereeeox—with the present temper of the mass of the people, means an immediate crash. PEEL and STANLEY—a crash before long, with the satisfaction, mean- while, of looking forward to in Lord DURHAM—considering that the Juste Milieu has made the Lords bold and desperate, means something very like a crash. Tol-de-rol, Mr. SrEcTAToa, if affaiis don't look black enough, I wish, as Colonel Caocerrr says, I wish I may be shot. However, I suppose we shall have a Ministry by Monday: whether or not it will be a Government, is quite another question. My blue devils tell me that it cannot be that of which the elements have been destroyed by the Juste Milieu.
P.S. My wife (who, to keep things straight, always looks for, if not at, the bright side) insists on my saying, that, in her opinion, Lord ALTHORP would make a very good Premier, if joined by Lord DURHAM. She means, of course, that Lord Amioar should, being Premier, join Lord DURHAM ; and this is really the most sensible
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