As the period of actual conflict draws near, we think
we can discern symptoms of irresolution and alarm in the camp of the Tories. The solid fruits of all their exertions are now to be exhi- bited. We have been dinned with their shouts of reaction, and the land has been half-frightened front its propriety by the Anti- Reform howl ; but what has it all availed them? In the last session, they were defeated on every trial of strength. They must anticipate similar disasters now, unless they can strew an increase in their Parliamentary force. Have they obtained such increase ? On the contrary, they have lost two votes by the death of Lord FORBES and the election of Mr. WHITE for Longford. Have any Reformers ratted, We challenge them to name one. \Veil then, in what respect are they better off now than they were last session, with all their consumption of' time and money in wine and wassail ?
It is apparent that these reflections have come across the Tory journalists ; who have green meek and quiet as to the prospects and immediate performances of their party in Pariiiment. There may have been private missives to the Conservative Members, but no earnest and reiterated exhortations to early attendance. Will they venture on an amendment to the Address? If they do not, they will virtually admit a decrease, not an accession of power : if they do, and are beaten, the miserable upshot of their boast- ings will then be as evident to the whole country as it is already to us.
Should the Tories move an amendment to the Address, we pre- sume that Lord MELBOURNE will not again commit the blunder of conceding without a division, in the Lords, what his colleagues must resist in the Commons.
