1 SEPTEMBER 1838, Page 8

The Courier, which has for some months past been thoroughly

Re- forming on the Ballot, and has occasionally censured the conduct of Government in language not usually found in Ministerial papers, di- rected ;attention on ;Tuesday, in a truthful article, to the "state of opinion now generally existing throughout the ranks of the independent supporters of the Melbourne Administration. We can afford hut a few sentences- " There is no mistake about the sentiments of those who can venture to judge for themselves, and to speak boldly what they honestly think. Their style of reviewing the fatal session of Itele, and the tone of their reflections 'upon the policy pursued by the Cabinet they have so zealously and courage- ously upheld against every species of open attack or undermining influence— alike against the reckless section of the Radicals, and the Tories in whatever mood they presented themselves—exhibit a uniformity that tells a very plain story. • • • In these protests we have been joined by most of the respectable journals to which we are now alluding; whether such protests referred to that most needless and untoward of all decla- rations, the volunteer philippic against Reform by which Lord John Rus- sell, at the very opening of the session, scented anxious to cast efir the very supporters he should have conciliated ; or to. the Government rote against the Ballot, not atoned fur by the toleration extended to those Libe- rals in office who so gallantly and honourably vindicated the par lamina ()aline of their constituents, and their own characters as Reformers; or to the unlooked- for and utterly uqnstafied abandonment of the Approiwiation prinriph., upon the faith of a constant recognition of which, as essential to a final and satisfactory settlement of the Tithe-question, they had reentered hito office ; or to the not final and not satisfactory settlement of that question, by taking a million of money film the pockets of the punctually-paying people of England and Scotland, for the discharge of the debt which the Irish people refused to acknowledge as a just one; or (not to stop until we come to the last act of the unlucky and disheartening session) to that Ministerial bow of deference to the malignant, and not less malignant because ascendant, genius of Brougham, wherewith the delivering of Lord Durham bound into the bands of his enemies was necessarily graced "