CRUMBS OF COMFORT FOR THE TORIES.
OUR contemporary the Morning Journal, that setter up and puller down of Cabinets, has promulged another expedient for restoring the courage and raising the hopes of its wavering and sinking friends. They are to make a pilgrimage to Hurley-bottom ! A vault there, that did belong to the LOVELACES but which how belongs to the WILCOXES, has ben visited by King WILLIAM, General PAoLi, and,gEoada the Third; the air of it is of a most restorative nature. ',en the Tories have visited the vault at Hurley-bottom, in the domaii';(11 Mr. WILCOX, they are to proceed to dinner at the Golden Fleece, I% .aidenhead ; and this done, they may defy the Pope, the Devil, and the Duke, for the remainder of their lives. Spirit of tough old JOHN SCOTT! 7, all the boastings of thy friends reduced to a toddle down to " Hurleyort. ttorn," and a beef-steak at the " Golden Fleece ?" Is the tottering Church to be sustained and the broken Constitution mended by such doings as these ? Alas, alas, that so mdny deeds of mightiest promise should issue in so lame and impotent a conclusion—that so many speeches should be made, and so many petitions signed to so little purpose! Tell it not at Hyde Park Corner, whisper it not in Stamford Street, Blackfriars, lest the labourers at Ansley House should laugh, and the heart of HENRY Huarr should rejoice over the fall of our chosen!
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