POPULARITY OF THE PRESENT MINISTERS.
THE Globe was pleasant, a few days ago, on those Ministerial papers which attribute the late increase in the revenue to the Wel- lington Administration,—an Administration, it says, "which has not yet witnessed the planting and gathering a crop of potatoes." Our incredulous contemporary will be inexpressibly surprised to learn, that however little they have had to do with the crop of po- tatoes, they have yet exercised an immediate and very perceptible influence on the crop of potato-eaters. Speaking of Dr. CLE- LAND'S Bill of Mortality for the city of Glasgow, the Glasgcw Courier says—" It is not a little remarkable how this chronicle cf life and death bears upon the right side of British politics. During the unrestricted Free Trade years, it is remarkable how births and marriages decreased ; but no sooner does a Tory Ministry come into power, than marriages and births increase as before. An increase In the number of deaths indeed appears ; but this was to be ex- pected, and arises, no doubt, from the assaults which the CONSTI- TUTION sustained from a licentious spirit of innovation."—To find an additional number of children horn nine =mills after the ap- pointment of a Tory Ministry, is a gmtifying evidence of the loyalty of the people of Glasgow ; and we cannot but hope that, in return, the procreative energies of Ministers have after all been exerted on the potato crop which is to feed these infant proofs of their popu- larity. It is at any rate pleasant to see Liberalism convicted of its errors even out of the mouths of babes and sucklings—by their organ, the Glasgow Courier.
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