UNION OF "MODERATE" MEN.
THE Tories will support the Ministry against Radicals and Cana- dians ; but by no means from motives perfectly pure and patriotic. They begin to be impatient for their reward in solid pudding. It may suit simple Radicals to give Ministers what Mr. SPRING Ries calls "disinterested support," but the Tories are wiser men in their generation. Even the Marquis of CHANDOS, albeit no
ordinary placehunter, thinks it high time that the Tories should have some share in the profits of power. At a grand Conserva- tive dinner in Buckingham on Wednesday, the Marquis, contrary to his usual custom, enlarged on party politics. He gave the
MELBOURNE Ministers warning, that even the semblance of the Whig-Radical union would no longer be allowed to exist. Next week, said Lord CHANDOS, " the Conservatives will say to the Ministry, ' Throw off the Radicals you shall—support you against the Radicals we will—put down rebellion, and answer at the bar for having suffered it to break out.' " As for answering at the bar, Ministers may laugh at the threat : for the consistent Lord CHANDOS himself is willing that a Coalition Ministry shall be formed with the " moderate " portion of the present Cabinet- " The country had been agitated sufficiently long; and they required a Go- vernment firm, honest, and determined to maintain am honour of the Throne
and the rights and liberties of the country at large. They wanted men who
would throw aside private feeling, from both parties—who would fearle4y and honestly unite in cluing justice to all, in maintaining alike the prerogative date Crown unsullied and the rights of She People uninjured."
Again- " The country were anxious that the nonsensical idea of party should be done away, and t hat the Conservatives should come forward to the Queen and" ay,' Your Majesty's Government is one not calculated to save the country : we re9uire distinguished men, throwing aside party distinctions—moderate r, principle—to rally round the Throne and save the country from a civil war."
" Sava the country from a civil war what • becoming words from the author of the tenantry-coercing and country-enslaving provisions of the Reform Act I Lord CHANDOS concluded, says the report, by urging the ne- cessity of " union among moderate men of all parties, in support of the Queen, the laws, and institutions of the country, and in de- fiance of the Radicals and the rebels in Canada."
The truckling portion of the Parliamentary Radicals have now plain warning from one of the most distinguished members of the Tory party, that however ready they may be to follow the Whigs through mud and mire, the Tories will make it a condition of their necessary support of the Government, that the Radicals should be kicked back and shaken off the skirts of Lord Jous Rosati-L. " Throw off the Radicals you shall," is the peremp-
'tory command of the Conservatives. To obey it, Ministers are nothing loth : there is only one annoyance connected in their minds with a formal coalition with the Tories—the necessity of abandoning a part of the patronage and profit they now engross. But the sacrifice must be made to form a " Broad-bottom Ad- ministration ;" sundry Whigs must turn out. Bitter will be the pang. There is, however; this consolation—Christmas having passed, one more quarter's pay has been secured !
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