8 JULY 1837, Page 10

PITH OF THE POLITICS OF THE DAILY PAPERS.

Tier. Tory papers have had two main objects this week,—first, to make out that notwithstanding the Conservative professions of Ministers and certain of their friends, the support of Radical candidates in Westminster and Middlesex prove that they really intend to adopt a Whig- Radical, not a Conservative policy ; and the second, to bring the flagging Tories up to the mark, and inspire them with the hope of victory at the coming election. By way of demonstrating the treachery of the Whigs, the Times said, on Tuesday— Hume Hume antl Byng are openly canvassed for together ! Byng, the old 'Whig," has coalesced with Hume, the undisguised Revolutionist—with Hume who never speaks but to revile the Church of England, who never acts but with a desire to subvert it ; who spouts forth rancour against the prerogatives of the Crown, against the hereditary Peerage, against the military and naval defences of the State, against one and all of our national institutions: who preaches penuriousness and practises his own doctrines, never, if we he rightly informed, having contributed even a decent sum to those public charities which had always heretofore drawn no inconsiderable share of their support nom the subscriptions of the County Members. Let, however, the country mark well this additional, albeit superfluous evidence, of a fact which, already established, must damn the Russell and Melbourne Whiggery to all future times—that here is one of their own acknowledged clique—an old Whig—an old Foxite—an ancient ally of the Cavendishes and Russells, and the rest of theta—who makes common cause with Mr. Joseph Hume, that is, with Mr. Daniel O'Connell, for the promotion of every one of those desperate and atrocious schemes.of which the end, avowed by their authors, is the overthrow of the British Monarchy."

The Standard on Thursday was on the same tack— The present tactic of the Melbourne Whigs is characteristically mean and treacherous; they go about everywhere, whispering—what a wholesome fear their master forbids them to put in print—that they are most anxious to 4: themselces Of the galling and disgraceful yoke of the Irish-Popish and British. Radical faetions. This yoke, they say, is riveted upon them by the distrust of the Conservative constituencies, that will not send a eufficient num- bet of Whigs to Parliament to enable the Whig party to assert an independence of its odious alike. This despicable attempt at fraud admit of an easy expo-

sure The Melbourne Whigs pretend that, in their Revolutionary career they . are not fi ee agents—that they are forced on by • the pressure from without '—that, in fitet, there is no real difference between themselves and the Conservatives, as to the generel character of the measures which they, the Whig., would pursue, if kit to their own choice. Now, if this be so, we ask, in the first place, why, if the Melbourne Whigs be not free agents, do they submit to a tyranny which they profess to abhor ? Why, if they the pressure ' do they place

themselves in the ftont of it—whv do they not avow the Conservative principles which they profess to cherish? There can be but one answer, because there can be but one necessity—the necessity of holtling plsce and receiving salary. Take away this premise, and their reasoning falls to the ground. But the people of England will scarcely recognize huch a terminus in political logic, as that a party is bound to hold place at whatever sacrifice of duty, consistency, and honour."

011 Wednesday, the Times summoned the Tories to battle- ,' It is time, surely, to begin—it is time, indeed, to have completed the good work ere now—but, at all events, time to lay a broad and solid foundation, and to provide funds sufficient for the legal expenses attending whatever contests are net carried on by individuals with abundant resources at their own disposal. Once commenced, the proem need not be a long one. Pressing as is the occa- sion evert where, and in few place. more so than in and near this great metro- polis, we are bound to state that Ireland is the vulnerable point, and that whereon the greatest amount of evil may be sustained by the Protestant and Royal cause • but likewise, and for the same reason that, tvhere by a judicious inisture of iiresight and energy the greatest mass of evil may be averted. We are menaced by the organs of Popery in Ireland with a numerous accession of jointe to the O'Connell tail. It is declared that the Conservatives are to lose the Lord know% bow many seats, and that the Revolutionists are to gain them. Now it depends, not on the Papist demagogues, but on the Conservatives them- selves, to coufirm or falsify this valiant proclamation. We say deliberately to tl.e Protestants and local Catholics of Ireland, that the game is in their own handy. To play it well, and to gain a signal triumph, requires but arrange- ment, cooperation, some resolution, much activity, and a little money. Let meetings of Conservatives be held in every county of Ireland, having commulis cation with a Central Committee in Dublin, as a niediutn of communicaticn, lather than a board assuming authority or direction. The Central Committee and the County Committees may one and all be formed within a week frem this very clay. The choice of candidates and the summons to electors may, if the proper spirit be at work, hardly cause more delay than the lighting of a signal. fire. Conservative Ireland is already well organized for peaceful purposes, and its internal relations thoroughly understood, such a power can be put into im- mediate action. With regard to money, an average pittance of 400/. per county will amply suffice for the object aimed at,--which is, to induce independent Conservative voters to attend the poll, at their own cost; and, let the return be as adverse as it will, to lay the grounds of a petition to Parliament."

This call was not responded to as it ought to have been, we suppose ; for yesterday the Standard grumbled, as we all do, at the want of cash— "Tire fate of a vast number of seats remains to be ascertained—of quite enough to augment considerably the • tyrant majority ' in the present House of Commons; aud we do not hesitate to say, whatever use our enemies may make of the admission, that the exertions already commenced must be sustained with improved vigour, and that exertion generally must be prodigiously extended, or the ' tyrant majority' will he considerably augmented. * * • is it trite what we hear of rich men, that some say, • I love my ease too much to mingle in the fatigues and broils of a contested election, or to endure the labour of sitting night after night, amid the wrangling and trifling of a factious House of Commons; and, as to contributing seriously to the expense of returning other Members, why, surely, you forget that election contests have already cost me so many hundreds, or so many thousands, of pounds? "—sums, which, com- pared with the speaker's estate, may, possibly, amount to a peicentage of 5s. or 2s. M. on the annual income. Alas, how differently do men reason and cal- culate in matters merely selfish, and in those which concern their country ; and how stupid are the rich who allow of such a difference. Let a promising rail- road project, or any other scheme, to tempt the greediness of the selfish, be proposed, and the thousands of pounds are then freely poured in by the very men, who, with the most earnest professions of patriotic alarm upon their lips, grudge a few shillings to save that state of law and order upon which the se- curity of all their property depends. One railroad subscription-list, out of the fifty or sixty before us, would cover all the legitimate expenses of contesting every seat in England ; and the effect of auch a general contest would be t • give a Rouse of Coninions two-thirds of it Conservative. We speak only of legitimate expenses, and we shall never recommend or countenance the in- curring of any other."

The True Sun, on Tuesday, took a sombre view of our political prospects-- "With the present constituency, and in the present state of that constituency, we cannot form any very exalted notion of the wisdom, or the worth of the Parliament about to he chosen. The vitality of the Reform Act has worn itself

out with amazing rapidity and facility. The Metropolitan boroughs, and a few other large constituencies which it called into existence, are now 1111110il the sole monuments of a measure which was expected to regenerate the national representation. The number of small constituenciee, the annutil nuisance of the registration lottery, and the careful preservation of all the sinister aristo- cratical influences, leave us, with the above exception, little to beast of above the old system, whose corruption was justly declared to be so intolerable. Wealth and influence command the nominal representation ; and they will con- tinue to exercise an increasingly despotic power over it, until abuses shall goad on the masses ton general and determined movement like that of Its:31 Strong, at last, in a friendly Court ; the Household patronage come, and the Army patronage coming, into their hands; the Tory ItIle.men ever rallying fer their support against further Reforms the leading Dissenters satisfied with

their promised sop, and again seeming Reforms; to put the principle of religious liberty in abeyance ; Ireland full of gratitude for presumed intentions, and for a. present Lord.Lieutenant who is in truth so excellent as to make his appointment astonishing ; and with the prospect of a long and peaceful reign; every thing seems to insure that the Whig Ministers will have their own way to their hearts' content. They will go as far as they like; they will stop where they like; they will do as they like. And they !ell us pretty plainly, that they will not like to touch the Church so as to hurt the Bishops, to encumber the Lords with any shadow of responsibility, or !o widen the basis of the representation. In this we apprehend they will be supported by the increased Alinisterial (simply Ministerial) majority "which the elections will return. As to the Tories running them hard, by

party harder than and profuse expenditure, the Tories will not tun them much h an they wish. A strong opposition is occasionally a convenient ex-

cuse for stopping short.in a popular measure. It can at any tnue be neutralized by the inclusion of a few Tory Moderates; divided as they are from the Whigs brim perceptible demarcation of principle. And with such areessrion, and a few new Peers, the House of Lords will not give the Government mock trouble. Every thing looks very smooth. Lord John Russell goes out of his way to praise the high•mindedness of the Duke of Wellington in his election address; and Sir Robert Peel imam, to his constituents, of the support-he his accorded to Ministers in their opposition to organic changes. The next Par- liament will probably live out the whole long length of its septennial life. And we have before us the propect of a very millennium of intideration--of twaddle, cajolery, unanimity—of growing abosea at the expense of the People. and a growing Parliamentary and Executive strength for keeping the people quiet."

The cause of grief to the True Sun produced a sober triumph in the Ministerial Globe- " It is the small number ' of Radicals, whether dual or doeuple, to whom we would at present address ourselves. Aid we repeat, that we rank no man with this awkward squad—this ' contemptible mime it,' as they were termed by one of their own number—who dote, not hitniel aff-et the distinction. 'I hese are now very few ; but, few as they are, they insist with such persevorance on one or two beaten topics, that they RPM to require some sort of answer.

They constantly warned the Government, they say, of its fate, if it tlid not ex- clusively follow their councils. Well, what has liven the fate of the Govern-

ment ? A greater prospect of accession ,f s5ren4th, and consequent perma-

nence, than any Government has h id furu se five cars ! This is acknowledged

by those very partisans whose 'council.' I,..ve no., III en I.Pan ed ! Oh, but this,

they say, is the mere work of ehance !-- ef what tho Tor ice call an untoward acci- dent—a new reign —a compulsory dissolmion—the name of a yotteg and popular Sovereignfbr them, instead of that ofa King of fail i n years and doubtful diaposititan against them. Now, we admit to the full the shaie of Cairene, or providence, in the state of affairs. But we say its basarelg nc soot epee pour amr qui journt bien. Why are a new reign —a new election— fel toleve chances for this Alinistry ? The very same events formal out the first Wellington Ministry. These events only redress the balance which hail Itelnio been utielilly turned against Ministers by the tinned union against them of the Lot iI and the Court.

These events yire times nothing; they only untie their I, Ill l, enable then to take what the country is willing to give them. The acknowledgment that the dissolution must add greatly to the strength of Mitritcus !:see London and Westminster ReViCle] is equivalent to the acknowledgment that .Ministers have 0,iinion with them, and that a fair stage and no fivour Wam all that they wanted to confirm their tenure of office by the voice of the people."

The Courier also chuckled- " There is no longer a Railival fever ragiug in the country. The Times does not stir up the hot blood of the lower el isses ; and on the cool mnuIiflueruce of the upper classes it has no elTect. The (loadituriano/, the only Radical morning paper, though well conducted, died on Saturday. ' (Irganic the Speetator says, • is gone omit of fashion :" the Whigs,' though such re- proach is, in our estimation, an honour, • have rot kept up the steam of organic

nforin.' It is their merit to be reproached by the 'follies with inatmoting agi- tation, and by tie Radicals with having damped it. Whether the present puli- Heal calm he their work or not, its existence must give the public satisfaction.

such a spirit is &viewable to welLeonsidereil and practical reform ; and the

short way to get relief for the Dissenters, to settle the Irish Tithe and .Municipal questions satisfactorily to all parties, is to abstain fritter discussing the Balla and an elective Ilouse of Peers ! . . The Ultra-Protestants, with whom the Tories are linked, and the Ultra. Ratlieals, are alike dangerous. Ox- ford University and Bath, the 111‘Gbees on the one hand and the Feargus O'Connor. on the other, are the patrons of agitation. Thu Ministerial haulier

is the %tendert] of domestic peace; and it behoves; the constituencies, who desire to see the reign of the young Queen as tranquil amid prosperoua as that of Wil-

liam the Reformer, to send a large maim ity of men into the House of Commons who will support the Ministers. Contimirl and gradual reform, undertaken by those who are friendly to it, is the only method, as ate know from much expee

rience, to stifle agitation. Were the Ultras of either party to succeed, the de- sire and the necessity of organic change, nnw happily gone out of fashion, would be immediately revived. TO preserve both the constitution and the publie peace, the constituencies dumb, elect Ministrrial tarn!"

There is no longer a Radical 'fever raging in the country : it remains to be seen, whether having been carried into power by the unnatural excitement of the people, the Whigs can mitintain themselves against the Tories now that their Minorite most resolute supporters have cooled.

The Post this morning says that Ministers will dissolve Parliament as soon us possible, arid gives its own reason why- " We presume from the despatch with which the Ministers have disposed al their work, that it is their purpose to dissolve the present Parliament on the earliest possible day. And, considering the amount of business yet remaining to he transacted in tooth Houses, and the time which its trausaction is likely to require, we think that a prorogation, to be followed by an immediate disso- lution, may be expected about the lith instant. No tittle, therefore, is to be lost. The exertione which the Conservatives are tieiking in all parts of the kingdom should be redoubled, and every nerve shouhl be straired to the utmost, during the short interval which vet remains before the final choice is made be- tween good and evil. The alinisters have an advantage in the power oi select- ing the precise moment at whirls the appeal to the country shall be made; and we suppose, from their apparent impatience to make 0, that they do not think their elaiins to popular support such as prolonged consideration would confirm or extend. In this they are proltab'y very I igirt. After the failure of all their policy, both foreign ;Ind thitiit,tic; the Whigli itlicals have nothing to rely upon but the temporary poput unity which they hope to steal

from the russertiri confidence of their youtlifid Soveteign. This is an illusion whirls will not last long. flume and Loyalty !" Wakley and the Consti- tution ! ' O'Connell and the Protestant Succession !' ate watchwords which, if ivied at all, must be used without delay. In a week Cateshead will laugh at Mr. Cuthbert Rippun's invitatinn to rally round the youthful Sovereign ; and Roston will explain to Mr. Wilk., that whatever may he his other title to support, Inc is likely to benefit little by the attachment of the people to the Queen ! ' These apprehensions will drive the Govetntatent to an early dissolu- tion of Parliament. It will avail them nothing. We hear from every quarter such accounts el the KIIICCINS of Consetvative candidates, as idace the result of this important struggle almost beyond doubt. We have only to rex:4.11111mnd to

the friends of nor righteous cause perseveranre in their noble efforts. The toils of a few weeks will be t iehly rewarded in the permanent security which these toils will achieve for our Established Church, our Hereditary Peerage, and our Constitutional Throne."

The Chronicle sneers at the poverty and parsimony of the Tories; and says they are " hard up" for the sinews of war. " The caterpillars of the party have devoured the greens. For two years past the most lavish contributions have been extracted from the pockets of the rich Conservatives, and to no purpose. Periodically have Sir George Clerk, Mr. C. Robs, Mr. Bonham. and other hungry expectants, assured the rich men of their party that each fresh bye election arid committee subscription would oust the Whig-Radicals, amid place in office the old pluuderers of the public.

A burned child dreads the fire, and we are by no means astonished that they can no longer 'raise the wind.' No device, therefore, remains for these specu- lators and adventurers, but to show a bold front, and plant candidates in every town and county. This is the trick of the Torres, and the recommendation of their press."

We shall see who will have the most cash in' the day of actual combat. In the mean while, the Chronicle advises the Reformers to have plenty of candidates- "The Tories may play the game of covering the country with locust candi- dates ; but at the hustings, dozens of them will be missing and many more dozens will be shamefully defeated. If the approaching contest is to be one of profligate expenditure, we advise the Reformers to give the Tories the benefit of the retaliation-to put in nomination candidates in every close county, at the niece cost of the legitimate expenses of the poll, never exceeding two hundred pounds-to contest every borough-seat, however hopeless-in brief, to carry the war into the enemy's quarters. Above all, we counsel the Liberals to keep an accurate record in every county, city, and borough of the United Kingdom, of all the bribery, coercion, and corruption practised by the Tories, and to crowd the Parliament with petitions, setting forth the existing imperfections of the repre- sentative system. We shall soon see how much the Tories will gain by their threatened corruption of the constituency. The constitution of the HOUR of Corn. moos has yet to be further reformed, notwithstanding the vaunted exertions to the contrary of the Carlton Club. If we desired revolution, anarchy, and a general scram'ole, we should wish to see the Tories in power ; but the nation is too wise to admit them."