TOPICS OF THE DAY.
"FOREWARNED IS ORE ARMED --A POLITICAL PARALLEL.
" Spsiti is now described Its on the high-road of revolution. The Queen Ttegent sits in the chariot, with lstutitz as her driver, and the other Ministers SIS 'her attendants. On they go merrily, drawn be four fiery animals, called wraps d'etat ; and as they proceed there is hut little doubt that the team will become numerous, so as to hurry all soon to the gad. The names and pedi- grees of the foui present coups d'atat deserve to be enumerated. " 1. The first is—the distni.sal of a popular Administration, supported by sevemeighths of the Elective Chamber, and by the will of the People. This bold stepper owes its bit th to the care of the Camarillo now surrounding the Queen-Governess. " 2. The second is—the formation of the new Cabinet out of the minotity. 4i3. The third is—the dissolution of the tot-tee. 4. The fourth is—the convocation of the constituting Cortes in an illegal manner." Madrid Correspondence of the Times.
Here is a most accurate description of the present designs of oar own Tories. Three of the above coups delat were struck in November 1834, by the English Camarillo and Queen-Governess : the fourth was alone prevented by what the more resolute Tories call" PEEL'S poltroonery." This time it is understood that Sir *ROB E R T will go all lengths with the LYNDHURST set. The moaning of "all lengths" is plain enough. 1st, Dismiss Lord MELBOURNE; 2d, Form a new Cabinet out of the minority ; 31, Dissolve Parliament; and then,—if the new Parliament should, like this one, reject a minority Cabinet,-401, Call a [louse of Commons as if the Reform Bill had never passed. The fourth is a logical and necessary consequence of the other three coups detut, supposing that they should failuf their object—the restoration of Tory power. A mere repetition of the last attempt of the Tories to recover power, is net to be expected. " All lengths "signi- fies, not an experimental attempt, but a determined resolution to keep office. There will be no Tamworth manifesto this time— none of the humbug of conformity—but a consistent course of coups detat.
The thoroughgoing Tories are right: their only way to the sweets of office is by what the Times correspondent calls "the high-road of revolution." Thanks to the Tory organ for so clearly exposing, in the guise of an allegory concerningSpain, the designs of his party in Elie:and. Forewarned, saith the proverb, is fore- armed. If our PoetostAcs will have an " 8th of August," to be followed by "Ordinances,' we must be preparing our fortress of Ham. Six years hence, perhaps, some French "TOMMY Dug- comeR" may move in the 'Chamber of Deputies, an address to Queen Vt.csontA, praying for the liberation of unfortunate Lord Linerowasr.
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