TORIES OUT OF TEMPER.
IT was very cruel in the Radical Members of the House of Com- mons to disappoint the Tories by preferring Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE to Mr. GM:MICR:4 for the Speakership. Moreover, it was ungrate- till. All the world knows how deeply indebted Radicals are to Tories ; who are never slow to sacrifice personal predilections, or part.y interests, when a Radical point is to be gained. Real and ef- ficient representation of the People, education for all, untaxed bread, just government for the Colonies—these, and other objects of Radical pursuit, the Tories withhold itot ; the base Whigs alone deny them : and yet, when such a trifle as the Speaker's chair for MT. GOULBURN is asked, the Radicals refuse their assistance ! Truly it might be supposed, front the tone of Tory journalists this week, that time relations between the Conservutive party and flue House of Commons Radicals were correctly set forth in time preceding objurgation : that Tories were not the pertinacious foes of Reform ; that to revile Radicals were not the daily practice of the Tory press ; but that Radical votes for Mr. GouLnuns would only have been a fair return for support rendered to MT. GROTE, ME. DUNCOMBE, mid Sir W11.1.1Ast Moak:sworn!, towards the carrying of their respective motions on the Ballot, Suffrage-exten- sion, and Colonial misrule. So far, however, from making good any claim to Radical aid, the Tories asking it might receive a fit
answer in Shylock's retort—" Fair Sirs, you spat on us last Wed- nesday; you spurned us such a day ; another time you called us dogs : and for these courtesies—you now expect us to vote your man into the Speaker's chair !"
" We cannot permit the Radicals," says the Standard, "to evade by any subterfuge the infhmy of that disgraceful union which they disclaim with such solemn hypocrisy."—What anion? Two Mem- bers of the House of Commons are candidates for the Speaker's chair. One of them must be elected. The Radicals vote for him whom they prefer, and he happens not to be the Tory. Not the slightest obligation is thereby created to vote with the Govern- ment on any other question. So much for the " union." But what shall we say to the " infamy" of liking Mr. LEFEVRE better than Mr. GOULBURN ?—All! there, indeed, the Tory fixes us fast. Because the election of Mr. ABERCROMBY was made a trial of party strength, therefore the choice of Mr. Aumteitomav's suc- cessor must be regarded in the same light—though not one of those circumstances which made the rejection of MANNERS SUT- TON so important in 1835 exists in 1839. It is unnecessary to repeat the distinctions which we stated on the 11th and 25th of last month, as applicable to this subject ; for no attempt to over- throw them has been made either by Whig or Tory opponent.
" Ministerialists, Philosophers, Radicals, and Chartists, are all one." So the Standard declares: and no doubt they are all as one either against Toryism or against Tories—some for principle, some for place ; some for the gratification of self-importance, some be- cause they need an apology for supporting an unpopular Govern- ment. It is no doubt excessively annoying to the Tories, that men who agree in nothing else should concur in thwarting them, and that the result of this common feeling should bar the access to Downing Street. But the Tories will not better their position or their prospects by ebullitions of disappointment. Veither will they succeed in diverting attention from their own failure by attacking the Radicals. Cannot they muster courage to tell the public, what so many of the party tell each other—that when an opportunity of regaining office was afforded by the acci- dental means of a Radical agreement with them on a single point, they were incapable of improving it? One set of Tories impute the failure to the " blundering" and the " disagreeable manners" of Sir ROBERT PEEL: another set affirm that the party was " be- trayed" by Sir ROBERT and the Old Soldier, who, desirous of escaping the responsibilities and plagues of' office for themselves, erected a barrier, by which the leaders, serving for time, and the followers for pay and plunder, should equally be shut out. "It is a very pretty quarrel as it stands :" to you, 0 Tories, not to us, belongs the settlement of such a strife.
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