Tait's Magazine for February contains a spirited, article on the
" State of Parties." It is written by Mr. Roebuck, the Member for Bath; and deserves attention, both on account of the ability which it displays, and because it may he considered as the Manifesto of the In- dependent Party in the House of Commons. In the same Number, a paper entitled " The Destructives," with a good deal of pleasantry and sarcasm, rates the Whigs and Tories on their rejection of their old party, names. Our Whigs are become Reformers, and there is not a Tory to be found in the land—they all style themselves Conservatives. Both
parties, but more especially the latter, thus evince the consciousness that their own misdeeds and- those of their predecessors have made them under their .right names odious to the People. The Radicals, however, still glory in their cognomen.
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