THE TORY PLor.---We find that our predictions yesterday respecting the
Plot in the House of Peers to attempt the overthrow of the present Govern- ment, may be realized sooner even than we anticipated. Cabals and intrigues are going on in all quarters. Certain branches of an Illustrious Family, both legitimate and illegitimate, are, as on the occasion of their resistance to the Re- form Bill, more than usually active in their canvass to obtain votes and proxies for the threatened collision. The Court even is said to be insincere. This has always been the report when matters have approached a crisis—spread, as we have reason to believe, by the Tory dames infesting the purlieus of St. James and Windsor, with as much truth, or rather with as much probability of suc- cess, as distinguished their efforts on the former memorable and eventful occa- sion, when their temporary triumph over the weaker feelings of the Sovereign only proved how hopeless was the chance of resistance to the will of the people. Can this game, however, be played again ? or rather, how often can it be played, at the desperate risk of revolutionary movements? Let those beware of the consequences who provoke the crisis. The Bishops are probably beyond hope, and beyond cure. But we recommend to the Dukes of Cumberland and Glou- cester, and some of the ladies of that family, a perusal of those passages in our history which recount the events of the early parts of the reign of the First, and the latter days of that of the Second Charles. A bill will probably soon pass the House of Commons, repealing the Act of Charles the Second, under the pro- visions of which the Fathers of the Church are now enabled to pervert the privilege given to them of sitting in the House of Lords for far different objects, - to the purposes of political faction and intrigue. May no bill of exclusion of greater personages from greater privileges follow? May no address of the House - of Commons remove a Duke of Cumberland, as it (lid a Duke of York, from the Court of the King, and deprive him of the means of plotting against a Reforming Administration and the public interests? We caution—we intreat these mighty and sapient personages to beware how they trifle with the public feelings ! And if there are personages even greater than they—male or female—who suppose that the English people will again submit, without enforcing retribution from the authors of such calamities, to a repetition of the scenes and the dangers which distinguished the insane attempt of the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Baring to assume the Government on the temporary defeat of the Reform Bill, we pray them to "look before they leap," and to ascertain, from better-informed perstuis than the blue-bottles bred iu the corruption of all courts, at what risk that experiment can again be tried ? We tell the public, that e.crisis is again at hand, and that they must be prepared to buckle on their armour fur the fight. If our warning voice have no effect, then, as was said in the olden time, "-The Lord's will be done." We shall watch with a vigilance only equalled by our anxiety the progress of coming events, and sincerely pray that our anticipations, from the evident symptoms of the intention of the Tory and Episcopal Aristo- cracy, to come to issue with the House of Commons and the People, may. be exaggerated, and our apprehensions ultimately removed by the conversion of the Peers and Bishops "unto wisdom," either through a wholesome apprehension of the calamities which may be entailed, first upon themselves, and eventually upon the country, or from a calm re-consideration of the principles on which their conduct ought to be regulated under existing circumstances. —ilforning Chronicle, June 14.)
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