12 JUNE 1959, Page 32

The Spectator

JUNE 14, 1834

THE efforts made by Ministers to "conciliate" the Anti-Reform Opposition in the House of Peers, are now universally allowed to have failed. In vain have useful measures been mutilated or abandoned at their bidding; in vain has the patronage of the Army been given up; while in the Navy, the Church, the Law, the, Diplomatic and Colonial services, good things without number have been showered on their kith and kin; in vain has Lord GREY whined, and Lord BROUGHAM wheedled,—not one Tory has been converted to the party of the Whigs, or to the party of the Nation.