The old game is kept up. The Tory newspapers have
but one theme. The Times this morning, and the Standard this evening, are devoted to abuse of O'Cosszt.L. The Times evidently connects its own rapid decline in circulation with the growing influence of the Member for Ireland. Nothing else can account for the rabid vitupe- ration with which, day after day, it assails Mr. O'CONNELL and all who
defend him against the Orange gang. This morning, five columns of the Times are filled with this sort of twaddle. The "renegade vigour" of the ci-devant Leading Journal is departed. Now and then the pen of LYNDMIRST redeems its principal articles from utter insipidity; but ever since that fatal Sunday when the Duke's lieute- nant bargained for the " thunder " of the Times, the chief characteristics of the paper have been personal abuse and vulgar twaddle. The fate of the Times should be a warning to the unprincipled. From the low estate to which that once flourishing journal is reduced, the selfish may learn that honesty is the best policy, and that public opinion is not to be insulted with impunity. We hope that the Times will persevere in its diurnal and low-bred abuse of O'CONNELL : the public has learned to respect those whom the Times vilifies, and to anticipate success for that cause to which the Times is adverse.
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