Since our last publication, several letters have reached us, from
dif- ferent and opposite putts of the country, hearing witness that the con- duct of the Melbourne linis try has fully confirmed I he Spectator's am. ticipations host summer and autumn. The provincial newspupers tell the same story. The Sunderland and Durham County Herald was a stanch supporter of Ministers till very lately, hut now its tone has changed ; for, though willing to be a friend to Lord Melbourne, that journal (honourably distinguished from some of its colitemporalies in the North by the ex- clusion of scurrilous attacks on private persons) cannot sink down to It mere partisan. This is its estimate of the proceedings of last session. 4' This seems, indeed, beggarly account' to render to the People, in return for all their eaeriticee ! Not so, however, think,' Lord Melbourne; who, in the prorogation speech, which is quite a curiosity in its way—a rate specimen of the oureans in multo, or, nest-to-nothing in many words—inetructs her ItIas jeorty to say to the Lords, (our masters and his) and to the gi ntlemen of the House of Commons—, The state of public business enables nie to time this pin. erected and laborious session.' fwo words in this sentence are undoubtedly true; the session has been, of a surety, protracted : ' as may be proved by the almanack ; and, in good south, laborious' also has the session proved, as mountains were wont to be in dass of yore, creating a huge uproar in the country for months together, and concluding the maternal agony by giving to 0: this ati..crous and she woad a ridiculous vernoimprogeny. The blame t ti miserable result, must be ehared by the two dominant factions in the state : the Tot jet having vigorously (opposed whatever was good, in men as well as in measures ; while the lf'hiya, uninstructed even by experience, have yone on, step by step—fultering—hesitutinp—but still advancing in the fitted path of
• conciliation and eonteation,' until, at length, jirr all usefid purposes, govern- s:teat hos been brought to a dead stantbstill.
The Bolton Free Press, by no means an Ultra Radical paper, ridi- cules the uneasiness of the Morning Chronicle on account of the Radical demonstrations. In a recent article, the Chronicle had said that the prospect was " by no means comfottabler whereupon the .Bolton journalist remarks- ' This certainly is not by any means' a comfuttable prospect' for the Whig Adminieto anion ; but we do not see any reason why an honest Reformer should lament that the people breve at last resolved that they will no longer give the:r support to Whig corruption and misgovernment, through a f eutruption and misgovernment. So far as Bolton is concerned, w present: e
that, were a general election to take place at the n ct: i*h fear di:
e, sod were g Liberal candidates for Bolton to st:inndgatshme eivelMay'hsigi,s,,apurauftesusinTeernoictshoing than • willingness to assist in keeping the I.e shamefully beaten, and Mr. Bolling would have a Tees m14'4,, But while we feel firmly persuaded that this would be thecase in Bolton not from a belief that any honest Reformer would join the Tory ranks. It because we are persuaded that the influential Reformers in this town would Co such a case, be apathetic, and let the Tories triumph, rather than exert selves to assist a Ministry which has renounced the cause of Me peop/e, saying that the ' landed interest ought to preponderate in the House of 63m.
MOUS.'"
The Brighton Guardian, another Liberal paper—not the organ of the Ultra- Radicals who voted against Wigney, but a Whig-Resied journal—proclaims the consequences of the Tory-Whig policy.... "First, it is plain that the Ministers, deserted as they will and mast be sy those Members who are radically inclined, or whom Radical constituencies eeo influence, must go out. It is impossible they can remain in office. no, positively refused at the beginning of the last session to pot themselves et 64 head of the Reformers; they agreed, in fact and substance, to govern the country in obedience to the wishes of the Lords, the squires, and the parsons• and sooner or later, and we think now very soon, they will be deserted by those who oppose the Lords, the squires, and the parsons—that is, the extreme Radical., the manufacturers, and the Dissenters. Their party is broken up, The wonder indeed is, not that it should now be dispersed, but that it Mott so long have held together. We have supported them because we thought thu we thereby obtained the countenance and assistance of one section of the Ms. tocracy to democratic. principles, and because thew possession of office kept eta of the Government, vigorous, strong-handed, coercive-minded Tories, sae would have driven, first Ireland, and then England, into *odious anal rebellion, producing a violent revolution."
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