A Privy Council was held on Thursday ; and it
was resolved to prorogue Parliament to the 5th of February. The natural con- clusion from the postponement of the time for assembling the Legislature till the latest customary period, is not that the condi- tion of affairs, domestic and foreign, is as satisfactory as usual,— for it is notorious that the country is in a critical state,—but that Ministers are afraid to meet Parliament, awl hope to profit by the delay to gain some additional strength. There is, however, no reason to suppose that they will seek reinforcement where it might once have been found—from the People. "As yet," says a Ministerial journal,* "we have heard nothing to induce us to be- lieve that our rulers have adopted a line of policy likely to lead to a more profitable employment of the session that is to come." than of the last. On the contrary, it may be surmised that Ministers intend again to throw themselves on the Duke of WELLING- TON'S tender mercies. The Morning Chronicle is profuse in its admiration of the Duke ; whom it would scarcely go out of its way to flatter at this juncture of affairs, without a shrewd suspicion that its Downing Street friends have no better resource than his Grace's support. This at least is certain—that there is not the slightest indication of an intention on the part of Ministers in any degree to relax from their opposition to questions which a large majority of their own friends support. To all appearance, it is their design to play over again the game of last session—if they shall be permitted.
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