Lord MELBOURNE really ought to muzzle Lord Morro.The First Lord
of the Admiralty rarely opens his lips without exposing himself and his colleagues to ridicule and reproach. The Quadruple Treaty debate, and the unceremonious treatment he received from both sides of the House on that occasion, ought at least to have restrained him from giving unnecessary provocation. But on Thursdarnight, the question being the third reading of the bill for putting an end to the practice of giving head-money for captured slaves he ventured to at- tack Lord BROUGHAM with the insinuation that the present hostility of that formidable person arose from his desire to turn out Lord Coy- TENHAM and remount the woolsack. Lord BROUGHAM retorted in slashing style; sneering at Lord Mrscro's wit—his talent seemed to lie that way, though nobody ever supposed it ; reminding him that Lord LYNDHURST would be Lord COTT EMI A M'S successor ; enlarging on the high gratification of being Lord Chancellor in an Administration whose measures were defeated by votes of 96 to 36—on the forbear- ance with which be had himself treated the Ministry for three years, and their beseeching him to remain in the country lest he should upset their ricketty Cabinet ; of all which matters Lord BROUGHAM now in- formed Lord MINTO, because it was evident that his colleagues left Lard Morro in utter ignorance about Quadruple Treaties and other subjects, of which he really ought to know something before attempting to be witty at other men's expen=e in Parliament. In reply to this "showing up," Lord MINTO is said to have "explained."
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