SATURDAY NIGHT.
The Courier this evening says, that "the country may look on all idea of a dissolution of Parliament or of a change of Administration to be at an end." Why ?—Because the Liberal majority has been in- creased by twenty-two votes ? Will that enable Lord MELeouRNE to carry measures which he declares to be essential to the welfare of the empire ? Has the Courier ascertained that the House of Peers will change its course in consequence of the vote of last night ? When the Liberal majority was double that of last night, the Tory Peers refused to pass the Irish Tithe Bill, and other measures of the House of Com- mons and further, they turned Lord Melbourne out of office, and dis-
solved the Parliament. Will a majority of 86 prevent them from doing that which they did in defiance of a majority of 17125? Has any thugs happened to deprive them of the power of repeating the coup &Art of November 1834? They have still the same paramount in- fluence at Court, as large a majority in the House of Lords, and a very much larger minority in the Commons. The vote on the Irish Municipal Bill is evidence of the strength of the Liberal party ; but any strength short of that which will enable Lord MELBoutiss to carry the leading measures of his Government through the House of Peers, is less than what is necessary to keep him in power with credit to himself and advantage to the country. If he can so use the decision of the House of Commons as to procure him the power of coercing the Lords—for to nothing but coercion will they yield—well and good ; but if not, however it may annoy the subalterns, the Premier ought to resign.
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