On Thursday, the Morning Chronicle put forth as a fact
the following
falsehood- " The aehnission II the enemy makes the Whig majority 37; and yet the Morning Post of yesterday asks how the Government of the country can be carried on with so small a numerical advantage ?"
The "enemy" made no such admission. The Morning Post of Wednesday observed- " Those sagacious pastimes of Whig-Radical policy, who at the cona- mencement of the elections gave out that Tory returns would be curious inci- dents, of rare occurrence, and calculated merely to diversify the general scene of Blinisterial triumph, now admit that, exclusive of the doubtful, Ministers have to contend with a minoritity of no less than 310 votes. Their majority, then, (putting out of the calculation that sprightly gentleman Mr. James Aber- cromby, for whom a dreary renewal of the Speaker's chair seems to be still in- tended.) will amount to 37 T/ris is their own anticipation ; and a brigkt one it is, no doubt, for a Ministry which insists that it has with it the warmest admiration of the Court, and the most undoubted esteem of the nation at large; to say nothing of the 'coal districts,' and the professors of green-grocery in particular."
This was the " admission" which the dishonest Chronicle tried to palm on the "enemy," although aware, that so far from the calculation of a majority, of 37 being adopted by the Post, it was expressly stated to
be that of the Ministers and their partisans.
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