that occasioned disaffection in the Ministerial majorities, and dis- Teta
events of the week leave no room to doubt that the Re- agreements in the GREY Cabinet. The unsatisfactory manner in formers will command a powerful majority in the new Parliament. which the Ministry was patched up, and the sidewind by which The election of a Speaker will be its first business. The late they contrived to get rid of Mr. WARD'S motion, rather increased Parliament was guilty of a serious fault in choosing Mr. MANNERS the external pressure; for it augmented the popular dissatisfac- SUTTON. The very first act of the Reformed Parliament spread lion. The MELBOURNE Ministry was composed of men, a majority disappointment far and wide; and led multitudes to prognosticate of whom were believed to be favoulable to progressive and vigor- the evil course of vain attempts to conciliate the Tories, whieti to the " lath and plaster" Cabinet. The pressure on Lord MEL- At the time, we strongly remonstrated against that most injudi- BOURNE was of a very friendly and considerate nature; for he was cious proceeding, and enforced the great importance of " starting" supposed to be aware of the rottmness of the conciliatory system, well. But it turned out that the election of Speaker was only the and disposed to move onwards—slowly perhaps, but yet in the beginning of a series of measures by which the Cabinet intended
right way. to stop Reform, and reconcile the Tories to the loss of power
The Tines points out clearly enough the difficulties in the way of It is scarcely conceivable that the Members of the new Parlia- Earl Gar's resuming office with Lord STANLEY and his friends; ment will commit the same egregious blunder as that into which and indeed, the idea cannot be gravely entertained for an instant. " confidence in Earl GREY'S Ministry" led their predecessors. The suggestion of digging up the old nobleman, and replacing But the snare is already laid for them, and it is again baited with him in a situation from which he made six attempts in one year Sir CHARLES MANNERS Surrost. The following article, which to escape—even when he had the aid of the STANLEY party—is we have found this week in an able provincial journal, the Re- quite unworthy of consideration. Neither, as the Times says, former, published at Hertford, and which we have reason to know could Lord STANLEY form an Administration of Whigs. The is well entitled to credit discloses the tactics of the Tories, country would not endure to be governed by a man whose sole re- and points to the proper man for the Reformers to place in the commendation is smartness in debate, who has given ample proof Speaker's chair. of his want of tact and temper even as a debater, and whose " The Tories are playing a very ingenious game, in order to insure the elec. official career has shown him to be destitute of statesmanlike tion of one of their own party, as Speaker of the new House of Commons. We all recollect the outcry raised against Lord Grey, because, on the retirement qualities. Lord STANLEY has been, like many other clever youths, of Sir Charles Manners Sutton, he refused to increase the number of his pushed beyond his depth, and puffed far beyond his merits. He opponents in the House of Lords, by conferring a Peerage upon a gentleman must gain experience before he can be a useful ally to any whose hostility to the Whig Government was undisguised and unbounded. Minister. To think of Lord STANLEY as Premier, or as a leading Well, the Tories have now been in office six weeks. They have not held a Minister, is even more absurd than the scheme of exhuming Cabinet, which the late Speaker has not attended ; yet we hear nothing of lis Earl GREY. Peerage, or of his admission into that Administration, of which, when the advent of the party to power was talked of in June last, the Speaker was to Having disposed of Earl GREY and Lord STANLEY, the Times have been the head. The mystery of this inconsistency is easily solved. Sir comes to the proposal that Lord MELBOURNE should be associated Robert Peel thinks, and very jnstly, that Sir Charles has personal claims to the with the Duke and his man. chair, which no one else possesses. He knows that Mr. Wynne, or Mr. notil- " Why not inquire into the feasibility of an alliance with Sir Robert Peel, burn, would not have the slightest chance of replacing him ; and, looking upon and on the principles of Constitutional Heft,' m ? There might possibly, on the it as a great object for the Government to gain an advantage,lowever slight, at kirk Church question, be less difference between Lord Melbourne and Sir first starting, he has prevailed upon the Speakeir to become its champion, and Robert Peel than between Lord Melbourne and Lord Stanley. We hazard the to undertake the irksome task (tor a most irksome task it is) of presiding on opinion that if ever the Ultra-Radical pressure is to be effectually resisted, it more over the deliberations of the House. We do not mean by this to impute will—it must—be by such a union as that which wa have now suggested, be- to Sir Charles any superhuman disinterestedness ! No : if the sacrifice be tween the rational and moderate portions of the Conservatives and the Whigs."
great, great is to be the reward ; for we understand that the Governor-General- ship of India is to recompense his present self-denial, at the close of the first
In other words, it is recommended to forma Coalition Ministry, session, if his fr iends remain in so long; and if not, their last act is to be his less Liberal than Earl GREY'S. For, however the Times may en- elevation to the Peerage, in which case he retires with his title, and his pension deavour to mystify the matter, no man in his senses will believe of 4000/. a year. The same awaits him in the event of his defeat,—a contin- that a Wellington and MELBOURNE Cabinet will be more Liberal gency, which must be provided for; as Mr. Abercromby will be started
again voting him into the chair. Possibly they may so vote; but no Reformer who values his seat at three months' purchase should venture to follow so treacherous an example. Again we say, let the new Parliament " start" well !
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