TOPICS OF THE DAY.
HOW TO TURN OUT THE WHIGS.
THE Conservatives are destined to enjoy a monopoly of popular odium no longer. The Whig Ministry have made vigorous effort, during the last few weeks to deprive them of its exclutAve poi.
session. In these efforts they have succeeded so well, that if th: Tories were only true to themselves in the House of Lords, thev might throw out the Irish Church Reform Bill, and compel tho Ministry to resign (as in that event they are distinctly pledged to do), without the least risk or difficulty. There would not be tile slightest danger of the Ministers being carried back to their places on the shoulders of the People this time. We really should not be surprised if the result of the Minis. terial blunders, which are now daily exhibited to the sorrowful na- tion, were such as we have pointed at. The Conservatives will help the Government through with their Disturbances Bill with hearty good-will. They cannot avoid seeing that the most power. ful and popular Administration that could be formed would sink under its accumulated errors. They will then throw out the re. medial measures, and the Ministry: along with them ; and will ma. mediately on their accession to office pass measures of their own, calculated to obtain a temporary popularity, and enable theta once more to get warm in their seats. All this is posSible.
The Whigs appear to be the same incurable simpletons-they were in the time of SHERIDAN • they • still persist in building up walls to knock their own heads against. The most insidious and malicious of their Conservative enemies could not have contrived to inveigle them into a more desperate position than that which they now occupy. A speedy retreat can alone afford them the least hope of deliverance. For how do they stand with Parlia. ment and the Nation?
In the House of Lords, there is a majority ready and eager to overthrow them on the first opportunity. Their apparent majority in the Commons is not to be relied upon. Ireland holds their Go- vernment in perfect detestation. England is vexed. The Cabinet itself is said to be divided : some members of it wish to join the Tories, others incline to the Radicals. The aristocratical influence of the old Whig party was blasted by the Reform Bill. What then is there to prevent their speedy overthrow? Nothing, clearly, can prevent it, except a return to popular courses and the princi- ples of Reform.
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