It is not supposed that Ministers will abandon office until
every means of retaining it shall have been proved ineffectual by trial. But if they cannot keep all, may not a bargain be struck with the Tories, so that a part may be saved of the pleasant things attached to power and place ? On dit, that the attempt will be made to form a Coalition Ministry, .on the following basis. PEEL and the tractable Tories to come in ; Sir ROBERT Isaias, Lord RODEN, and the honest bigots, to be discarded. On his side, Lord MELBOURNE, besides removing parvenus or incapables—such as POCLETT THOMSON and SPRING RICE—from his Cabinet, which might be left by Lord HOWICK, would give up DANIEL 'O'CONNELL. The arrangement would indicate a moderate Tory government of Ireland. Has not O'CONNELL himself an inkling, or suspicion, that he and " Ireland " are about to be sacrificed by the Whigs ? See his last speech, at Wexford, on the 5th instant.
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