Let the Tories disclaim as they will any settled plot
for defeating the Ministers last Monday, we know that the most indefatigable ex ertions were used to get up the majority. No less than 39 proxies were entered before two o'clock. Some noble Peers were even dragged with gentle violence from their beds ; one, at least, we know will not deny the "soft impeachment." However, the overthrow that followed was dreadful : that it must be a final one we do not aver,—there is always danger in even a sleeping majority, which it is notorious may at any time be brought to bear against Ministers in the House of Lords. There are two modes of crushing it,—first, a creation of Peers, which we do not—which we never did—recommend but as a last shift, and under extreme necessity. The second is the adoption of a line of policy, foreign and domestic, so vigorous, commanding, and popular, as to draw the whole country into the wake of Ministers, and let the Lords resist it if they can. This is the course which we would recommend to his Majesty's official advisers.— Times.
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