THE MAGNETIC NEEDLE OF THE TORIES.
Twa Morning Chronicle says, that " Mr. MANNERS Surrox is viewed as the magnetic needle in the dark and tempestuous state of Tory politics." The Duke of WELLINGTON, we presume, is the pilot who is to weather the storm, and Mr. HOLMES the boat- swain to pipe all hands on e-:ek. The vessel of state will soon therefore be in safe hands. But it is very fine to make arrange- ments upon paper-to put names upon the muster-rail, who will sot appear to answer to the call. As the needle shows some un- certainty of direction when it nears the pole, so its Tory prototype, Mr. MANNERS SUTTON, will, it is feared, begin to waver as the Premiership opens full upon his view, and, as the Chronicle sug- gests, hesitate risking," a comfortable pension as a retired Speaker, in a Reformed House of Commons, for an embarkation on the stormy ocean of party." It is really ludicrous to see the straits to which this coca haughty and omnipotent party is reduced. A very few years have elapsed since the mention of putting the Speaker at the head of a Ministry would have been laughed to scorn. The country, we should hope, is safe at least from such a Cabinet as that must ne- cessarily be of which he would be the head. But Earl GREY and his timid colleagues may learn one more useful lesson from the fact that he is looked to as the future leader of the Ultra Tories,— namely, that all their patronage and flattery will fail to mitigate the determined hostility of the party to which he belongs. Mr. SUTTON, upon whom they have conferred such weighty obligations, is deemed a likely person to take the lead in turning them out of office : and scarcely a week passes in which the astute and plausible LOrd LYND- HURST does not make them rue the day when they put the staff into his hands to break their own backs with. The idea of winning over the Conservatives to liberal politics, was in all conscience absurd enough; but the way in which Earl GREY set about to perform the feat, indicates a simplicity which is almost inconceivable in a statesman who has lived in the days of PITT, LIVERPOOL, and ELDON. lf a man is to be bought over from his party, he is not to be trusted : why, then, render him independent of all future obligation, and enable him to pursue his plans for the overthrow of his benefactor in affluent security ? The Tories pursued a different plan when Whig deserters were to be bribed and provided for : they never allowed them to pocket Tory cash, and retain credit with their own party, by adhering to their politics and aiding its intrigues at the same time.
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