THE PROVINCIAL PRESS ON "THE CRISIS."

DURHAM Cuoxianm.—We would rather have to deal with it Government with which one could at all events maintain it fair stand-up fight than with one Lich it is disagreeable to attack and impo,sible to defend. We shall it be suspected of saying this thorn:eh any love fin' Toryism. We pretend to no new lights itt nuttier, of political Ileitis. If we seek to get rid of the Whigs, it is because we regard their eel, tinuance in °thee as an obstacle to the furtherance of desirable licfinsui-; and think that it would be to tusk of infinitely less diffi- culty to form a popular and lasting It..forin Ministry than a Tory one which could hold together for it month anti a day.

LIVERPOOL CHRONWLE.—The candle is nearly burnt out. The end of the truckling system is approaching. In vain have the 3Iinisters kissed the dust before the Tory Lords for the last three sessions of Parliment—in vain have they struck tin it ffireheads egabot the ground., to the evident concussion

of their as they worshipped the Pros ie la nun!, or the Celestial Ent- -Fire—hi vein hat, they dune this in p•m•rai--aial in vain h • Lord Melbourne, partiealer, de Heed "Jiro Crow" seventee a times a hi;:Itt, at the command. of the Duke of Wellington, during the same period, to the ano-emeatt of his enemies and '.'"c]te .gnst of ell lame et men. It Las been "love's labour lost." The Tory Leeds hating drag,; d him throo0 the dirt, until they sup- pose he has Ochenot the country map?, n,l naus,ant with his mean and obse- quious servility to tit sa, have now dropped the mask. * * But what is doing in England and Smdlaml Literally twit emphatically nothing. Not a sell- tary coy, tom tt, N.:thee., or hamlet, has taken the field to petition the Queen in

favour of the 'nets conduct has frozen every spark of enthusiasm out of the souls of the people.

SLI E.Ff I LLD, INDEri.:,DENT.—MilligeN have tin right to hope for the sup- port of Refit ne rs on the mere ground that they are keeping out of posse.r worse principles and worm. men. It is plain that by persisting in their present Course the:. sere but plepariug the way for the succession of those men and those prtaciples ; and if the result of their temporary keeping out of the Tories lie only to let them in when the present difficultles shall have blown over, we shall owe them but little gratitude for such a service. OnSEIIVEIL—It may, however, be anticipated that, with few excep-

tiens, the Radicals will side with the Whigs. There are many professions of deterndnation to exact terms from Ministers before 'their support is promised,

and there are magniloquent menaces of desertion, if, after the Ministers arcsaved from defeat by the Radicals, the former do not obey the dictates of pru- dence nail gratitude, and commence a snore liberal policy; but, judging nom past experience, we anticipate that these grumbling gentlemen, headed by orr. Hume and Mr. Warburton, give their rotes to Lord John Russell, and ob.. fain nothing, not even a promise of any thing worth haring, in return. We do not say that it is politic to turn out the :Whigs; but they who support the en. ing Administration would act: with more dignity in smothering their

tent. It is their own fault if' they are dragged through the mire, Mr. Hume declares that an " economical opposition " to a Tory government would be pre- ferable to the present state of things ; nevertheless, he declines to promote by his votes a change which he thinks desirable. Others have followed his ex-

a and we expect that they will continue to abase Ministers and rote toith them. Lord John Russell may softly (lopise their empty objurgation so long as he receives their etAetual support On divisions. We expect. thereforei,o:talzelooaurdinghs,. without certain information, that the Radical Members of the Housati. mots, with very finv exceptions, will support Ministers on Monday next. BRADFORD OBSERVER.—We have long held the conductaio.afvethlieniLloirtbe,rtaol Members of' the House of Commons., in upholding the Ministry at and allowing it, tint in little matters and then in questions of

depart from the high and lofty' principles which it professed on hiking Mice, as fitted alike to their ithlividual influence and the permanence of the Ministry

* We anticipate a Tory ascendancy, for a term of greater or less duration, as inevitable. We have long expected. it, and haying carefully estimated the final results, have no dread of it.

Score-sm.: Curoesacros.—Until the division in the House of Commons, on the 15th, On Lord John Russell's motion for a vote of confidence shall have taken place, there is no knowing in what position the relative state of parties in Parliament ItIIIV be ; but it hi evident, from sundry signs of the times, that the weak, vacillating, and unprincipled Government of Lord Melbourne is at its last gasp.

KENT IIERALD.—Li the preseilt position of affairs, everybody must see that Liberalism must ]am ;wish, drooping and divided as the 'Liberals are by the defeetiou of many of the leaders or their party ; everybody has seen Toryism revive under the Whig' Conservative" that has beets so long adopted by Ministers, Until 110W it has reached, by steady progression, almost to the point of displacing its opponent faction. It is reduced to a certainty that another election must insure the triumph of the Tories. Thus the longer the system of truckling to the Whigs has been continued, the worse has it been for the interests of Reform, and the worse will it be. Things are now at so des- perate it point that there seems no hope of any improvement but by pas-

sing through the stage of a Tory restoration. * * * * We are politicians old enough to remember the aspect of party at varied periods, and never did we know the Reform forces (setting aside the Chartist movemeat, which has grown out of the despair of more moderate Reibriners) more disor- ganized met inefficient than at present—their disorganization and inefficiency caused solely by the condect of the Whig .Ministry. This has gone on regu- larly increasing with the accumulated proOfs of Whig delinquency. And this is the state of things which such scribes as the Thy/miner would wish—not to perpetuate, for it cannot Ire perpetuated, it is almost at the point of a natural dissolution—but to continue o little longer, 'until the Liberals are yet sunk lower, until they are depressed to the extreme point at which the Tories may leap more confidently, more securely into office.

SOMERSET Com'i'c GAZETTE.—We are aware that the prospect of return- ing to that which has been \veil described as " the cold shade of opposition," is contemplated with anxiety and dread by 1111111V sincere Liberals. But since there is little hope of' coy other result from the "Finality policy of the Ministry, it is as well to prepare far it, and we trust in this and subsequent articles to relieve the alarms of' such dour readers as feel any, mad satisfy them that they at least, and the cause, will suffer nothing by the change, and most probably will benefit greatly.

GLASGOW ARGUS.—Whoever has seen two peevish stranger curs approach each other, snuffling and snarling at cautious distance, each half-hoping that the other may turn tail and allow it to show its valour safely in pursuit, each afraid that the other may prove an ugly customer, and more than half-inclined to turn tail itself—has 'Seen the express image of the Peel and Melbourne re- tainers in their anticipation of the fifteenth of April. The Independent Liberals—if there be such a body in Parliament—may now see that, with a little courage and determination, they can effect something for the country. To gain them, the Tories are stilling to postpone the advocacy of their favourite theme—Protestant ascendancy.. To gain them, Lord John Russell is willing to take a vote upon an abstract principle', (lie who has again and again re- corded his fear of "abstract principles,") leaving the merits or demerits of Miuisters untouched by his resolution. 'Pile hedging, shuffling, trimming, and equivocation, both of Whig and Tory, are proof positive that if the 6-6 Members who voted in favour of Mr. Duncombe's amendment on the Address, or the 30 Members who supported Mr. Acme's motion in favour of Household Suffrage, or only a dozen of them, were to take up and resolutely maintain an independent position on the cross:benches, they would hold the future desti- nies of the nation in their hands. We do not hope that they will make this stand upon the 15th : but they ought to take or make au opportunity, without delay, of (Iola.- it. The contest between the Melbournites and the Peelites is a mere struggle between the Ins and the (lots—hetween the place-holders and the place-hunters. In this struggle the Nation has no interest, and the real Representatives of the Nation ought to take no part.

DuNiami ADN'ImTirtelt.—The Examiner labours hard to show that it is the

duty of Reffirmers to support the Melbourne Administration, as there is no prospect of its being sq.p[anted by a baler ; that the Ballot, the repeal of the Corn-law, and other refonns of vital importance, tree" nearer " accomplish- ment than they would be were the Tories in office. This is a view which has been taken and acted upon since the " yellow lietther " began to be displayed by Ministers ; but people are now tired, nay, ashamed, of adhering to it

longer. * * The Melbourne Administration have practically done their utmost to pave the way fin' the return of the Tories to office: they have truckled to then—allowed them a veto, regardless of the wishes oh' the party by whose energy they wire' placed in °thee. Men reap as they sow. A fhir admi- nistrative pulley is out enough. There is no security for liberty- mdess in institutions ; this security- the MelbourneAdministratiun have either reffised to extend or weakly uhandoned the attempt at the bidding of their opponents.

norms CHRONWLE.—It is not in the power either of a Whig or Tory. Government to prevent, in the long run, the triumph of Radical principles But the Whigs, in the mean time, have done serious injury to them, and to the best interests of the country. Professino- to govern by the voice of the people, and for their sake, their conduct, in almost every important point, 1ms given the lie to their profession. They have gone in the fitem of every proposal made by their beat friends for the amelioration of the state of society. 'They have given countenance to the grossest and basest description of political im- morality. * * Why, after all this, any—save, indeed, venal Whig or- gans—should plead the necessity of "keeping in the Whigs" and "keeping out the Tories," we are at a loss to conceive. The country will deal with the Tories when once they are in.