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SATURDAY NIGHT.
'rimsomber, of Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, Mr. ROEBUCK, and Mr. 'rite, at the Bath Reform dinner on Thursday, confirm our statements respecting the line of action to be taken by the Indepen- dent Reformers in the House of Commons next session. The Tories are to be opposed by the Radicals ; for Toryism, as Sir WILLIAM AIOLESWORTII said, is the object of their " unquenchable hatred." But the exertions of the Radicals will not be solely directed to this end, no will the exclusion of the Tories from office he considered the paramount object of their Parliamentary policy. In order to regain the confidence of the People, popular measures will be introduced and zealously supported.-not, as has been the case hitherto, left in abey- ance, in order that the Whigs might not be embarrassed by the exhibi- tion of their hostility to Reform. In so far as the Whigs are better Reformers than the Tories, they will of course suffer less than the Tories from the new Radical plan of action; and it will not be incon- sistent in the Radicals to support the Whigs against the Tories so long as (again to quote Sir WILLIAM .MOLE6WORTII) the Whigs are one iota better than the Tories. The chief damage to the Whigs will arise from their being found repeatedly voting on the same side with the Tories in opposition, to motions supported by the Representatives of the masses.
'The Tories must perceive that the policy explained by us last week, and proclaimed at the Bath dinner, puts an end to their joyous antici- pation of a Speedy return to office, and gives vast additional strength to the Radical party, who present the only real obstacle to that return. The silly nickname of " Tory-Radical" will lose even the appearance of fitness when applied to the Independent Reformers; for it will be seen that, in every attempt to force themselves into Down- ing Street, the Tories will be met and driven back by the Radicals, who at the same time will be taking effectual measures to perpetuate their exclusion from power.
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