We are rejoieed to learn from private as well as
public sources that a degree of cordiality prevails at present between the King and his Ministers, but more especially between the King and the noble Lord at the head of his Government, which has long been wanting. That it should have been wanting, is perfectly natural ; for not only was the result of the experiment tried last November exceedingly mortifying, but it is notorious that, even since the failure of that experiment, per- sons have not been wanting whose study it has been to mislead the King as to the sentiments of his people, and to persuade him that a Conservative Government was the object of their desires. hence a constant doubt and vacillation—a coldness towards those Ministers, who, it is said, had been forced upon him—a belief that dissensions would anise amongst their followers and drive them eventually from power. All this is now at an end. The firm but temperate conduct of the House of Commons, and the warm and grateful sense which the people in general have evinced of the gallantry with which Lord Melbourne has fought their battle against the overwhelming host of his opponents, have, we understand, convinced his Majesty that a Go- vernment thus supported must be both strong and popular ; that the People of England are not Conservatives, in the Tory sense of the word, though resolved to preserve, by timely repairs, all that is really valuable in their institutions ; and that there is no obstacle now in the way of the Melbourne Administration which may not be removed by a judicious exercise of the Royal prerogative. klis Majesty is now satisfied that he has got upon the right tack again, to use a nautical phrase, and the Tories are dismayed at the prospect which the cordial union of a Reforming King with a Reforming Ministry and a Reform- ing house of Commons opens to them for next session. They cannot mistake the signs of the times, or the tenor of the language which is held everywhere. When they see quiet, sensible men, like Lord Ebrington and Mr. Bernal, expressing themselves to their constituents in terms for which a few years ago they would have been committed to the Tower, they must feel the immensity of the change which has come over the spirit of this people. —Hertford Reformer.
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