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Ir is a singular fate that the moat oligarchic
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Administration of our time should have been over-
thrown in • Parliament essentially the most ex-
clusive we have ever seen. Lord P.tutsirrotit,
when driven to dissolve by a vote of censure
of the late House of Commons, resolved to
pack a Parliament for his own particular use.
Both Lords and Commons were to be made rak—
ed, for his particular purpose in the first place, and
safe for general class purposes in the next. In the
main he sought to identify the two. He knew that
without the sympathies of clam, his aims as Minister
of a class could never be fully attained. Surround-
ing himself as he did from the first with a per-
sonal staff selected from the narrowest circle,
he longed for the time when he should be able
to enroll such a Parliamentary force as might
render him independent alike of the fears
of the Crown and the hopes of the People.
At the general election of 1837 he believed that the
opportunity had come for the realisation of his long-
cherished dream. A dissolution upon a single ques-
tion of evanescent interest was an unlooked-for piece
of luck ; aristocratic nincompoops and nonentities
might be threat into seats by the score, and a docile
majority once obtained, it would be easy to keep up
its strength by jobbing and recruiting. Nor was the
Upper House neglected. There also unusual expe-
dients were made use of to obtain a personal following,
and not without success. But it was in the Lower that
the appliances of patronage were most unscrupulously
resorted to, and the resources of electioneering
trickery and intrigue were most openly brought to
bear. Against the Liberal members for Manchester
and the candidate for Salford, who had dared to
oppose the re-actionary Minister, a conspiracy was
successfully formed, and, chiefly by the aid of Tory
votes, Ministerialist candidates were returned. The
same reckless and shameless game was played else-
where, and it was only by dint of personal courage
and weight of individual character that the long-tried
leader of the Liberal party was saved from expul-
sion from the representation of London. Upon the
whole, the triumph of Lord PALMEIMON seemed to
be complete. Men of the middle-class, who did not
wear his livery, fought everywhere at a disadvan-
tage ; and the net result gave to the Oligarchy the
largest share they had had since 18.32 in the House
of COOIO2OOI, and left the friends of progress in •
=alter minority than they had ever been since then.
Lord PALM/WON at length had a party at his
back, • party of resistance. He had also, as
he believed, many real adherents in the
ranks apparently opposed to him ; and, upon every
tentative division that occurred last Session, he was
able to parade a sufficient number of his Bertellte•
and Sroost• allies pour encourager (as attires.
Conscious, however, that in his own nominally-over-
whelming majority there brooded a bitter sense of
hurniliation,!and many of the elements of mutiny,
the late Premier set himself boldly to the task of
consolidating a force which should be personally de-
voted to his cause, irrespective of past ties of party.
Ile had hitherto been the champion on flash war
sions of the landed Oligarchy I he would now become
its benefactor.' Compared with the ascendancy of
class, the predominance of Whiggery or Toryism was
nothing in hiseyes. lie had been himself both Whig
and Tory, and was now Prime Minister of the Aris-
tocracy. Its knew that to remain at their head he
must prove himself s lavish paymaster, and hence
not only was every office of plebeian profit put in a
course of sequestration for the benefit of the heredi-
tary few, but new regions of salary and sinecure
were pointed out fur their acquisition. All the king-
doms of the eastern world and the glories of them
were displayed before their eyes, and all the riches
of these he said he would give them if they would
bat follow and worship him. The tempter has got
his reply ; bat are we quite sure that the offer may
not be renewed in some still more insidious form ?
Lord PAL MERTON is said to be politically dead ;
bat the Palmer-worm of aristocratic jobbing never
dies. It has had of late every good thing given it
for food white the prodigal hand of corruption could
bestow. It has grown fat and dainty, exigent in
the gratification of its appetite, and, though sated
with purloined delicacies and forbidden fruit, it was
but yesterday ravening still for more. How will it
be to-marrow, if Lad DIRBY should indicate any
diapositiuo to restore to the middle classes their fair
share of patronage, and should close again the gates
of Indian patronage, which his predecessor has left
ajar The man most know little of the traditions'
maxims of caste, the ineradicable instincts of
hereditary domination, the insatiable lusts of
oligarchic power and pay, who doubts the I
at this moment the overthrow of Ctsflor-
bosi • and - CLimRICARDIL - ism is not bitterly
mourned and passionately resulted by the class
which predominates in the present House of Co.
ready to vote for a Conspires,
foreign despot; but no law elf
dreeney will prevent them from
restoration to power of the nina
; their legitimate head. Natio.
sense and the oat-spoken jadommat
be able to baffle the hungry spirit
DE•fit's Ministry is so weak theft
it callow stand an hour. Let In
. overthrown for any legitimist
make way for • popular sal
it, and not for the mere brokers
an exclusive class. We avow
long to the ascendancy e

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