BLIGHTED HOPES.
THE following announcement appeared in the Standard of Wednesday last.
" The Duke of Wellington was yesterday honoured with a message from his Majesty. A numerous and highly respectalle meeting of noblemen and gentlemen, members of both Houses, whose political pnnciples are in accordance with those of his Grace, has been held, and will, we believe, reassemble this evening."
Now that the result is known and the Conservative bubble has burst, there is something very ludicrous in this solemn announcement. The Standard's informant is again destined to chew the melancholy cud of hope deferred. The Duke received no message from the King; lie turned. off the Windsor road, and, sighed in vain to pass through the Castle-gates ; he employed his morning hours in the uovel mem pation of reviewing some Yeomanry Cavalry, instead of forming the Tory Veterans into a Cabinet ; and lastly, the "respectable meeting of noblemen and gentlemen" was nothing better than a muster of the disheartened remnant of his party, at which his Grace vented his feelings of spleen and rage at the miserable result of his latest effort to force his way into the forbidden precincts of Downing Street. It seems to have been at this meeting, that the Duke of WELLINGTON, the man of wealth and title, of palaces, purple, and preferment, declared that all these things availed him nothing, so long as the power to dictate both to King and People did not accompany their possession. He avowed. his preference for the name of plain "Mr. WELLESLEY,"* and a seat among the haughty and irresistible Commons of England, to the degradation of the Peerage.
Our authority for this fact is the Times of Wednesday.
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