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filar lii- peoplc: '7)i" go ;zoverncd as that they shall
b prosix.,rou.g, happy and .united. He wishes for
contentment at home, and peace abroad. He knows
that a TOry Government would be destructive to both,
and, therefore, he would certainly only consent to it
in the event of being unable to form a Govern-
ment from the liberal Whig Reformers. Who
in point of station, personal character, judgment, in-
tegrity, and persuasive manners, holds the highest place
among these ? Why, certainly of those whose health
and age capacitate them to fill an office, the duties of
which are so arduous in the present eventful
,times,
none stands higher than (or perhaps so high as) Lord
ALTHORP. Most earnestly, therefore, do we hope
that the KING will request his Lordship to take the
place of Lord :GREY, which would at once satisfy
both Parliament and the country, and put an end to
those apprehensions which it will be for the public
advantage to remove as speedily as possible. We say
nothing' of the LORD CHANCELLOR, as although we
know his eagerness to serve his King•and country, we
do not see how his loss on the Woolsack could be re-
paired. He is in the exact situation for which his
eminent talents fit him above all other living men.
No man ever did, and certainly no man of less
strength and force of mind could, dispatch the business of
his Court and attend Jo the most important duties of
Speaker of the House of Lords, in a manner equally
honourable to himself and advantageous to his
country.

The uneasy, inquisitive, half sanguine, half de-
' sponding spirit of the Tory party displayed itself
unequivocally last night, in the House of Lords. The
Marquis of LONDONDERRY acting as their organ—
though we think they might have chosen a more
efficient one—endeavoured to draw out the LORD
CHANCELLOR, and entrap him into a statement, as
to how and when the new Ministry was to be con-
structed, and who was to have the task of its construc-
tion. The drift of these inquiries was at once seen
through by Lord BROUGHAM, who, in reply to Lord
ELLENBOROUGH, who pressed him still closer on the
subject of the Premiership, said, " Now, that is just
the one thing I will not answer. I will not answer
that question, and no one shall compel me to it. No
sneer—no good-humoured joke--nay, not even tor-
ture itself, shall compel me to answer that question,
which my duty to my SOVEREIGN will not permit me
to answer. I should be betraying my duty to my
KING, if I were to answer it." Had the Tories suc-
ceeded in gaining some clue, some insight into the
nature of the pending Ministerial arrangements, they
would instantly have clubbed all their forces—set all
their wits to work to thwart them ; and what with
calumny, insinuation, threat, and that subtle, in-
triguing spirit, of which they are such perfect masters,
they might possibly have succeeded in occasioning
very considerable embarrassment to the liberal party.
The LORD CHANCELLOR saw this at a glance, and
very properly and very discreetly took refuge in silence.
But how absurd in the Tories to put forth such
a jack-pudding as the Marquis of LONDONDERRY to
sound such a statesman as the LORD CHANCELLOR !
Or if they did not do so, how presumptuous in the
Noble Marquis to volunteer such a Quixotic attempt I
But both he and his party were well repaid for their
officiousness, They left the House just as wise as
when they entered 'IL.
_ 1- - 1 _ • . - - • 2.fions
of the LORD CHANCELLOR to the " almost hope-
less task " of forming a new Administration, to show
to what a height the Tories have carried on their still
and secret intrigues. They have been at work in all
quarters, sowing jealousies here, fomenting distrusts
there—now aiming to carry their point by finesse, and
now by bravado. But all their attempts have only re-
coiled upon themselves. Theirs has been great cry
and little wool. Fondly did they expect, fondly—so
infatuated is ambition I—do some still expect, that they
will be sent for by his MAJESTY. But, alas I
no messenger has yet arrived from Windsor fraught
with such a refreshing summons ! " Why tarry the
wheels of his chariot ?" Methinks he is long in
coming. Even so, ,and long indeed will it be—or we
have mistaken the patriotic nature of his MAJESTY
--ere the coachman of either WELLINGTON, PEEL,
or STANLEY, will receive orders to turn his horses'
heads towards Windsor.

It is clear that the Tories have not the slightest
acquaintance with the real state of the country, or
they would never even have dreamed of a restoration
to power. The hostile spirit of the people towards
them is " not dead, but sleeping." A week—aye,
forty-eight hours only—would suffice to set the coun-
try in a flame from one end to the other. The very
instant the news of a PEEL or a WELLINGTON Ad-
ministration reached the provinces, petitions and
addresses to his MAJESTY, calling for its removal,
would pour in from all quarters. Toryism is no
longer the predominant spirit in England. Reform
rung its death-knell. We are too far advanced on the
road of improvement—see our way too clearly before
us, ever to think of halting or drawing back.

Our readers will find, in another column, a letter
' addressed by the Marquis of SLIGO, Governor-
General of Jamaica, to the recently emancipated slave
population of that island, to which we call particular
attention. We have seen many documents of the
same kind--many recommendatory letters, addresses,
and proclamations issued by our provincial authorities
to the inhabitants within their jurisdiction—but one
equalling the letter of his EXCELLENCY, the Governor
of Jamaica, in paternal tenderness of admonition, in
mild patriarchal remonstrance, in soothing, affectionate
regard, in conciliatory allusions to the past, has
never yet come 'under our observation. We hardly
know whether to admire most its beautiful sim-
plicity or its extreme mildness, and the absence of

every topic calculated to keep alive that spirit of irri-
tation between the slave-owners and the slaves which
had nearly proved fatal to the security of the island.
Compare it with a state paper drawn up by a legal
officer of the Crown, and see how utterly contemptible,
how insidiously puzzling, the latter appears. Would to
God that kings and rulers, under whatever name, would
take a lesson from the Governor of Jamaica, and ad-
dress themselves to the understandings and the hearts
of their people, instead of irritating and perplexing
them by arrogant formalities, displaying the trap-
pings, while their fears compel them to conceal under
the guise of quibble the stern features of despotism.
It is time that governors should know that the prac-
tice of delusion is not necessary to awe mankind into
obedience to wholesome authority. Men on the very
verge of :.civilization are aware that order is requisite ;
and to secure their obedience to any power, requires
no more than a conviction that those in power intend