A change in the proprietary of the Courier. was announced
in the columns of that paper on -Wednesday ; and we infer a change of editor- ship, and of politics, from the following manifesto, which accompanied the proprietary notice. a With reference to the notice which appears above, we take the earliest op- portunity to reply to the inquiries which have been made from various quarters, as to the political course which this journal will henceforward pursue. "Our course will be to endeavour to obtain ' Good Government,' and to sup- port it wherever we can find it. It was with that object that we gave the bumble at of our support to the Reform Bill, in which electoral improvement (with the exception of the 10/. householder clause) we heartily concurred. But the end that the country had in view when it insisted on the accomplish- ment of that great reform, was not the triumph of any particular party m the state, but the amelioration of its social condition. It was not the abstract political rights which were then conferred, improved, or restored, that the people cared for; their end and aim was good government. Have they obtained that end ? What is the present state of the country ?
"First, how titres the bulk of the population? Has their social condition been improved? Are they wiser, happier, better ? " Let the late Chartist trials answer that question.
"Is the mercantile and trading community in a thriving condition ?
" Let the mercantile and trading embarrassments, still existing, answer that question. "Are the finances of the country in a healthy state? Are the means equal to the expenses? "Let the late financial operation of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer answer that question. "Is the internal state of the United Kingdom such as to afford satisfactory anticipations ? "Let the standard of Repeal, again hoisted by Mr. O'Connell, answer that question.
"Are our Colonies flourishing,: NM the peaceable and happy state in which they ought to be? I.et the embarrassing- position of Jamaica, the most important of our West India Colonies, and the precarious state of Canada, answer that question. " What is to be said of our Foreign relations ? "'What is to be the result of the present embarrassed state of affairs in the dominions of our ancient ally, Turkey ; and how arc we to deal with the ano- malous position of the Sultan's Viceroy in Egypt, who has defeated and dis- persed the Sultan's army, and who holds the fleet of his master in his posses- sion? and by whose oversight and neglect has this awkward state of things been occasioned ?
" Is Spain recovered from her domestic convulsions? Don Carlos, indeed, is in France ; but are the means by which this result has been produced honourable to the character of its proposers or promoters ; or has the general course of the interference of this country in the internal affairs of Spain—no matter to whom attributable, the country bears the disgrace of it—been credit- able to Great Britain, or calculated to increase or to uphold the moral influence which this nation ought to exercise in the affairs of Europe ?
"These are but a few of the questions which might be asked, and to which like unsatisfactory replies must be given. We are compelled to conclude, therefore, that the country has still to seek for that for which alone it cares, not fur the ascendancy of any particular set of men, by whatever party name they may be designated, but for that for the obtainment of which this journal will continue to strive, and to which, come whence it may, it would delight to afford its independent support—Goon GOVERNMENT.
The subsequent papers have been written in a tone of moderate Conservatism.
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