EXCLUSIVE DEALING.
BLACKWOOD has in his last two numbers been endeavouring to get up a scheme of exclusive dealing for the punishment of the Radicals. His argument is, that all the wealth of' the kingdom is in the hand of the Anti-Reformers, and let them but cease to en- courage the Reformers by their patronage and their purchases, the Reformers will speedily be starved into submission. The repeal of the Reform Bill will follow as a matter of course, Old Sarum will be restored, all new things will become old, and the world will roll once more in its backward course, as cannily and corruptly as in those best of times when HARRY DUNDAS ruled Scotland, and no man from John o' Groats to Maiden Kirk durst say "his lugs . were his am," without asking the laird's permission. BLACKWOOD tells us that the exclusive dealing plan is felt by the Reformers as a shot betwixt wind and water; and he calls on the Radical papers to copy it for general information. Cunning loon! . But, granting the ingenuity and novelty of the plan, does not its author rather injure his case when he puts down all the masters as Tories and all the workmen as Reformers? If such be the ease, how is the plan to be put into execution ? Is the Duke of WEL- LINGTON to curry his Grace of BuccLEuoit's horse, while his most noble brother is employed in mending the hero of Waterloo's breeches? For if there be none but Radical workmen, and if the Tories will only employ Tories, it seems pretty evident that these great men can only be served in future by serving themselves. . Further, as in every bargain there are two parties, does it not strike old Christopher, that his notable plan may be practised by the Radical commons as well as by the Tory lords. Suppose, ' for instance, the people should take it into their heads to refuse to cut down the Duke of BUCCLEUGH'S corn, or to mow his hay, or to milk his cows, or drive his horses, in what a pretty predicament • would he find himself! He is not a twentieth part so acceptable to his poorer countrymen as Lord CLONCURRY is to his; and yet all this was done to Lord CLONCURRY only last month. Assuredly we approve not of such violent courses; but if the Tories—or we . shall say, the Scotch Tories—were such utter fools as to adopt .BLACKWOOD'S advice, we should feel it our duty to preach up a .Solemn League and Covenant of the Labourers throughout the Land of Cakes, for the mere charitable purpose of restoring them to their senses. It would only be necessary to leave them the .vanity of their helplessness for a week or two, in order that they 'should discover the folly of their ways.
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