AWFUL CONDITION OF THE PREMIER AND THE LEADER OF THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Tim swearing-scene at Guildhall, on Wednesday, is thus gra- phically described by one of the unseen rulers of public opinion —one of the schoolmasters behind a veil.
"The City Chamberlain then read the usual oath taken by freemen, including promises to share all the charges of the city, not to take apprentices fir mole than seven years, to reveal all conspiracies to the King, not to go to convents- des, Sm.,- at which there was a general titter. The two noble Lords took the .nath with great solemnity, and seemed to us to feel as if they were quite awed by their situation. When we saw these two high and distinguished noblemen, one wielding the destinies of the nation, and the other standing at the head of the House of Commons, trembling almost like schoolboys—for they did tremble, —we could not help remarking, how insignificant, how trifling is the greatest amongst us in the presence of a multitude of our fellow-creatures. The snob strike terror into all; and this is the secret of the Tory anathemas against the :mob. After the oath was administered, which these noblemen seemed to us to take almost with as much awe as if they were young men just taking out their freedom," &c. &c.—Morn big Chronicle, July 12. 'The awfulness of Lord GREY'S situation, in the midst of the tit-
tering Livery of London doubtless made a deep sensation on his _ _ .
Lordship's nerves. But did he really tremble? It could not be with cold,—according to the famous reply of BAILLI, the Mayor of Paris, as he was about to be guillotined. Perhaps, then, it was with heat, or it might be only the remains of the "general titter," that had not entirely subsided in all his frame. The rea- son why Tories hate mobs—because they frighten them—is ex- ceedingly philosophical. Whigs too, we presume, cannot be very fond of mobs, —since they tremble, like schoolboys, at the mere sight of one in a titter. If these grey-headed schoolboys did tremble, as the reporter has it, at the aspect of a thousand grinning Cock- neys, why, then, we could not have avoided making the same re- mark as the writer—" How insignificant, how trifling, is the greatest amongst us, in the presence of a multitude of our fellow- creatures !"
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