THE DEVIL OF TORYISM—OLD PARTY NICKNAMES.
-Ate the dinner given to the Earl of Durham at Gateshead, b Loidship ternied Corporation Reform " that great win k by which the pestilential Toryism which has overshadowed the land will be extirpated." In extirpating the pestilence of Toryism, it is to be hoped that the Reformed Parliament will not permit the plague of Whiggism, or any other political plague, to lurk in the un- wholesome recesses—the filthy holes and corners of corporations. Let political venality and corruption be burnt out of the land, under whatever form it may appear, whatever name it may as- sume.
Some persons seem to be everlastingly haunted by the Devil of Toryism ; which the Reform Act has not yet laid. Political core ruptioa of every 'kind is connected in their minds witli Tory sway; and all that they consider necessary to regenerate awl purify the . land, is to purge it of the pestilential _Tories. We me much de- ceived, however, if the Corporation Commissioners, in their pro- gress through the country will not find it necessary to strike hard . aeothers besides Tories. The PALMER. division of the Bath, and the NEWPORT section of the Waterford corporation, for example, are not to be deemed pure because their patrons and purchasers . disdained to enlist under the banners of Par and CASTLEREAGH.
It would be well to abjure the old party nicknames, which have served for so long a period to distinguish the two sect ons of the Aristocracy. They are fit only for times when the peat body of the nation—not the populace, but the people in the enlarged and . best sense of the word.e-wereaimost wholly excluded Lom a share . in the government of the country, and had" nothing n. do with the . laws but to obey them—with the, taxes but to pay. them." Not that the nation is now of one mind on political subjects; but be- cause the terms Whig and Tory, Foxite and Pittite, ne longer ap-
- ply to theme There are two great parties • the country—the -fiiends and the foes to improvement. The latter, untlet whatever
designation they lie, are the then NI' born we would rejoice to see stripped of power, in the great an little councils of the nation—in both Houses of Parliament, and in municipalities.
We make no question that the Earl of DURHAU has done and will do his utmost to effect this desirable consummation. All such persons he considers " pestilent Tories,"—not knowieg a worse title to give them,—unless, indeed, his Lordship thinks a recre,ant deserter of Whig principles a degree or two more pestilent than a Tory.
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