SIGNS OF CHANGE.

SIR ROBERT PERT, we believe, is at G'!asgow, and not in Down- ing Street ; " the Tory " wolf is not yet admitted to his cruel repast, but only at the door. From one circumstance, we had a miseiving that it was all over with us. One of the Ministerial papers has discarded the well-wern song of the party, " Union among Reformers," and betaken itself to questioning the pre- tensions of a whole division of the said Union, and to calling certain members of it bad names. Along with this, we find some of the good old High Tory doctrines reinstated—such as, that people have enough to do with their own affairs, and cannot be always plagued with polities: and some others, equally just and venerable. The Ministerial paper is the Courier. Passing by its tirade of last Saturday against Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH and his friends,—who are accused of all manner of political wickedness, and worst of all, a desire to get into the places of the Whig Ministers,—we come to the curious leading article in the Courier of Wednesday, which appears among our selections.

Mark the opening- " If we may trust the professions of die Radicals, they are precisely a class to be reit+ ned with. • • • We propose therefore to argue with them on • their ow. premises."

Here we see, at the very outset, the Radicals, hitherto consi- dered as a component part of the Parliamentary force of Miois ters, are dealt with as a separate party. They are not called " our Radical frieg,ds," or " the Radical section of the Ministerial phalanx." Neither is a section only of the Radical party ad- dressed ; but "the Radicals," the entire body, are those whom the Ministerial Courier proceeds to reason with as omonents. " We hey, the Radicals to notice the fact, that the masses are not with them. The gentlemen and eiergynwu of Enelmid, with all those whom they Can 101 a • ence either by persuasion or otherwise, are against the Reheats.- Not against us—fir we have gentlemen and clergymen on our side—but against you Radicals. We have been and are in the habit of hearing such sneers from the Times and the SeuelarJ. The organ of a Tory Ministry woultl undoubtedly attack—nut its allies—but its foes, with the argument that they were not " gen- tlemen."

tt The chief duty of Ministers is to support and execute the laws as they thbl theta."

Excellent Conservative doctrine, too much lost sight of in the day s of WhigaRadical doininatien! Reeminers, it is true, would be apt to denonm•e it as the veritable ohl-fashiontel Tory excuse for slugsislmess and for the opposition of Goverement to Reform.

Mime!' of the pure Toryism ; let us now try the mixed—the Orator-Huntish.

We have the great majority of the gentlemen if the empire, NI'higs and Tories, against the Ballot ; and they on this ;mint my, e with the unryrestated mapws."

This involves an assumption that the non-electors would not choose that the constituent body, as it exists at present, should have the protection of secret voting. here the sinister Tory pur- pose occurs; in combination with the Tory habit of making rather free with facts. It is pretty notorious that in all large assemblies of the Reformers, electors and turn-electors, the opinion in favour

of secret voting is all but unanimous. the Coerier poiat out one reaoletion of any public meeting avinst the Ballot—or a situ 1e newspaper, addressed to aud circulated among the masses, in which the Ballot is opposed ? or one popular speaker who ven- tures to decry it ? Unless he can do a great deal more than this, —unless he can show that the general toned writers and speakers who addreas themselves to the masses is hostile to the Ballot,— unless he can produce protests against it, to overwhelm the peti- tioners for and supporters of it,—he must, to quote one of his own expressions, consent to be " put oat of court.'

The following is rather Whiggish- " If Sir William Molesworth and his friends really think that the Govern-

ment should act in obedience to the inajority rather than the in nothing can be more absurd in hint :mlthem. than to separate themselves from the \% higs. should they object to gratify about ohe•righth of the people, at most, by e,meeding the question of the Ballot."

It appears by a previous passage that the " one-eighth" here mentioned is intended to represent the constituencies, whose aggregate is taken at S00,000; and time Courier absolutely en- courages Ministers to reject the demands of the whole constituent body ! It is assumed that the masses are against the Ballot, that the electors are for the Ballot, but that the wishes of the latter are to be set at nought by their Representatives—no doubt for the wise Tory reason, that Ministers shoula " 8Upp9rt and exe- cute the laws as they tint them !" how bad swayer those laws may be.

By time shade of Mace! NTOSH ! " the Tory wolf" is not so near the door after all—here is a peal in honour, not if PEEL, but the poor old Whig O'CoNNeatoridden Ministry of Lard Meanou LiNE !

" If we may judge of the general opinion he th. remarks which we yesterday

(tooted from the Aberdeen Hernia. ..mud whielt we to-day quote fr the Hert- rani Rllormer, the great mass of the Reformers f England and nal are as much opposed to an attempt to weaken the Miiiistry as Mr. ()'timuell. From Ilertfold to Aberdeen at le mt. the Reformers renicnib-r the exertioni of

the Whigs with gratitude, out are against Mr. Roebuck and followers." But what a jump ! Suppose we were to quote an applauded Anti-Ministerial speesh at the Bath dinner, and a passage from the Glasgow Liber:itor of a similar tendency, and then say— "From Bath to Glasgow, at !east. the Ministry is reearded with

scorn"—what would be

thought of our reasooin • faculties, or our

respect fsr the understanding of our sea lers ? This me ison Wed. needay ; on Thursday the industrious Coeri i fuseished inure extracts of the 'awe tendency from dist very ituleponleat paper the MancheRter G utirdian, from the Brightmi.i it the Dah- lia Ereni,Ig P").0. and Fro 'tn4,i'mJ airnal : with tits observation, that " from Brighton to Dublin the eaee is the gAI110,..—j (1St as though there were no places between Brieliton and Dublin, or that all the intermediate towns and distriets must of course be of the same opinion. " From Canterbury to Belfast all are opposed to the W bigs," might be said n ith equal justice by a realer of the Kent Herald and SHARMAN CR AW FO D'S speeches.