THE MELBOURNE WHIGS AND THE MERE WHIGS.
TORY journals only indulge their habit of misquoting, uhen they put the words " the despised Whigs" between inverted commas, attributing them to the Spectator. The expression of our " valued correspondent," which has been so grossly perverted, was this— "The mere Whigs, to speak plainly, are despised." The omitted epithet was the most important word in the sentence. The Mere Whigs are essentially different from those Whigs who, by way of distinction from the others, may be termed AluLtiounerE Whigs. It is the Mere Whigs who, by theatening to rat if the MEL- BOURNE Whigs take vigorous measures against the Tories, have prevented those MELBOURNE Whigs from indulging their own inclination towards open questions. Indeed, some of the Mere Whigs have alrea.:y ratted to the Tories,—for example, STANLEY and GRAHA711 111A the rest are only waiting for a decent oppor- tunity to join PEEL. These are " the despised Whigs." What say you now, gentlemen of the Tory press? But our last asset- tit must not go without proof. Here it is, in the shape of an extract from the just-published number of the Mere-Whig Edinburgh Review—article, "The Approaching Sessiun."
It cannot enkr into the mind of any man to conceive a Tory restoration as a to cc per.ein;ie or p; rmanent ; uniess it should le ceemnpani,1 f•z; new ethabinaiimos mnonyst ineipal persons calia:ie/ in pal.. by el,r■ responding me:cessions and eompromiscs upon :0;1 the great me:emir.. uf prin- ciple and policy, rotTroting which the minds of men are, up to the pr sent sn nr,eh eliri'led and disturbed. C"aliti,:es ict th.'s hind, when aluddottly neeetddcy fir the public safety, are nevertherluss extreme difficult and toil node 1: iz adons. They are of very deleate r1;g: riation—ate expused to maMfold n.is,,mtrnelions, I there's a pretty word 1 and can never be looked at with greatur favour than that they use become the lca•t of two evPs. r, Better diviiki the spoil than lose it by gilarrelling.1 To tiris complv.rion, however, tut the ,upposed contingency, things most c. me of 10:r." • • * " It isimpossiL he to anticipate that the proceedings ot Sir W. Aluksworth and Mr. Itoelm•di to cle.diraol, in the present day, to iwiore the cause of pelt [test mere-whie] govermmart. as extensively as it l'ornierly was by Sir F. Mr dtt
and Mr. Cobbctr. Should the rldenima oecur, the recent sin eel, of Sir llobir; Peel furni.`• 's hat ,cawy materiAs for conjecturing whit is the pros] eet which
he sees Isim, or v,110. is Me enurse which he is noll;.'nting to/or/time.
lie an dream, under any rireumstmees, it being aide to bring toget:a.r a Cahnn: wele up according to his own devices, ur ifter the undefinable l'that
is, taatiosic .7y Tory] harmonics (.11 11 11441 be fidadiel I;is :St. Vet his is net Uttered a sylIa1;0 cdoctrcing the kilns 1:11:e it ccu1sk that a Government em.1,1 Its framed, at once sd libera! and zmu:irellensive. (what a perversion of terms! j 1, to comprise in it theta pes-ilde seetiuris of li1/4i.es and Tories whom lovers of their country can o'er wish to see br Ow sum:. Ca%inet." . _
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