RESURRECTION OF PEEL THE REFORMER.

AMONG the "signs of the times," to which we pointed last week, was the ostentatious patronage of Sir ROBERT PEEL by the Morn- ing Post. The "Leading Journal,' as it used to call itself, has abstained from any eulogy on Sir ROBERT; although his election by the Glasgow boys afforded an opportunity for descanting on his matchless merit and popularity. The Times is in the interest of LYNDHURST, and can scarcely rejoice at the apparent intention of the Tory placehunters, in the event of a "restoration" to range themselves under the cautious Baronet, in preference to the des- perate Ex-Chancellor. The Time, however, will be forced to follow in the wake of the Post, and take up with PEEL • for Lvraes•

Rusin never can be any thing better in politics than a clever bravo, hired by the job, and paid by the job. The execration of the Irish nation, which he earned by his alien speech, has rendered him a focus of danger to any Minister who should be hardy enough to take him for a colleague. He can do " a good stroke of work "

in Opposition for a single session, but is not the safe man for a

permanent leader. This the placchunting, that is the more crafty section of the Tories, see plainly enough; and so they fall back

upon PEEL. But PEE L has " antecedents " which embarrass him-

self and his allies. He has professed himself a Reformer, aware of the necessity of acting in a " spirit of accommodation " (to

quote his own words) "to the alierei circumstances of the Go- vernment." With PEEL for their leader, the Tories must swear that they are Reformers too ; and so the worldly-wise section reas- sume the mask of moderation, and direct their org ins of the press to write in "a spirit of accommodation to the altered circum- stances" of the party. Poor Lord WODEHOUSE declaimed against moderation and forbearance, as the bane of the Tories—he was not let into the secret : but Mr. Dawson, the betrayer of the Lon- donderry Boys, knew better ; for at his Devonport display he la- boured to demonstrate how zealously the Tories would execute laws which they had stigmatized as subiersive of the Constitution, and guard privileges which they had denounced as destructive of Church and State. At the Colchester gathering ton, on Tuesday last, Sir GEORGE SMYTH CtIlogiZed Sir Romer PEEL, for his freedom from the violence which "unfortunately" too often marked the words and actions of the Ultra-Tories. The meaning of all this is obvious. There has been no reaction in favour of old- fashioned Toryism: the Tories have found that out. DENS has had his day, and LYNDHURNT'S is nearly over. To show that we are not exaugerating the change which has come over the Tory party veryl iecent:y, and doubtless upon a nearer glimpse of office and its responsibilities, we shall quote a few sentences from the Morning Post of Monday and Thursday.

"There is nothing more unphilosophical, or more plainly contradicted by ex • perience, than the assumption than the political party under whose guidance a great constitutional change has taken place must be the only or the fittest party to contrive and carry into effect measures of detail suitable to that great

change." * * •

" We have said that there is little prospect or probability of legislative im- provements being effected at all unless they are taken in hand by Con- servatives. The reason is, that the Conservatives alone can undertake them without suspicion of their sincerity, consequently without strenuous opposition from those whose cooperation is necessary to sound and useful Reform. Take

the Church for example." • * * • *

" The country desires improvement ; and seeing that, from the desperate and revolutionary connexions of the present Ministry, there is no probability of its being allowed to attempt any thing which is not tainted with a revolutionary character, the country is, in our opinion, looking for another Administration, in whose measures those whom they concern will have confidence."

Nothing but reform and improvement will now go down with the Conservatives I—only let the Tories in.

"Probably there are many well.disposed people in England, who have been so imposed upon by the perpetual concealment of truth and assertion of false- hood on the part of the Ministerial press, that they may be inclined to reply to us in this way—'You have shown why theWhig- Radicals fail, and why they ought to fail, in the schemes which they have undertaken under the name of reforms ; but if you Conservatives had the Government, you would give us no reforms at all : you were against the Reform Bill, and you will try to repeal that, instead of following it up by practical improvements.'

. This is exactly what the people do say of the Tories, and be- lieve of the Tories. The Post could not have hit the nail more directly on the head. But the Tories, calumniated innocents, are not opposed to Reform—quite the contrary; the Post swears it, and PLAUSIBLE PEEL professes it.

"When Sir Robert Peel became Prime Minister, his language was this- ' After the passing of the Reform Bill, I saw that a great change had taken place ; that there had been a complete revolution in the possession of power ; and that necessarily there must be on the part of public men, who mean honestly by their country, a spirit of accommodation in their public course to the altered circumstances of Government. I, however, cannot say that I intend in power, or as a condition on which to obtain power, to adopt any course differing in principle from that which I pursued in Opposition, subsequently to the passing of the Bill of Reform.' Thus it is plain, that the Conservatives, speaking by the mouth of their leader, did adopt the spirit of the Reform Bill, and that not (as has been asserted) for the sake of keeping the Government, when they obtained it by the spontaneous will of the King, in November 1834, but at the time that the Reform Bill became, and because it had become the law of the land. It is impossible for language to be more explicit than was the language of Sir Robert Peel respecting his adoption of the Reform Bill, and his determination to act up to its spirit in the course and conduct of his Govern- ment."

Was there ever any thing more impudent than this attempt to vamp up the stale, fetid fraud of 1835? Why, good Tories, this story of PEEL and Reform is worn out : like the jargon of the Cosmogony man in GOLDSMITH, it will not impose upon a country bumpkin, or a country curate twice.