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beasts," which have stood sponsors to Church and
State time out of mind, but under that of those minor
Gazettes which are under the guidance of beasts of
more reptile kind, which must, therefore, be presumed
to be not less adapted for ferreting out. In another
part of our paper our readers will find the list of those
Conservative Councillors of the King. We bid the
reader loiOk at the scroll. Falstaff's ragged regiment,
" only one shirt among them, and that was stolen from
a hedge," are angels to them. They are- sheer Tories
every one, and evidently chosen, not for their talents,
hut for their Tory principles—
" To despot depths, by sure attraction led,
And strong impulsive gravity of head."
Now people of England ! now is your time ! See
what flip), have prepared for you. A tatterdemalion
crew, upon the whole of whose backs there is not a
rag of political righteousness—a set with whom Free-
dom—honest English Freedom—she who will live for
ever—cannot " march through Coventry—that's fiat."
But if she is true to herself—and who is the driveller
that dares to doubt it ?—" to Coventry they must
speedily march, heavily and heartily cursed, and with
all honest men rejoicing at their degradation—a degra-
dation in which the very name of Tory shall be lost
for ever, or if it remain, it will remain as the scorn
of the wise, and the laughing-stock even of fools.
Again we say, look at the list, men of England,
look at the list I Is there one redeeming man, m
even promise of man, in the whole conglomerate ?
Can ye lay your finger upon one single name in the
scroll, and say, " there is hope for any one liberal
" measure here ?" Are they not the old enemies of
every thing liberal, whether in measure Q r in mind ?
If they are not the rampant enemies of liberal mea-
sures, they are men fallen into the very dotage of the
opposite. One part of them has shown itself, in
every measure, to be all Tory and all tooth ; and • the
other pact, though toothless, is yet toothlessly Tory—
, they have not the bite of the Tory, but they have the
claws. To which point will the " weathercock" now
turn ? In what halter will " the leading journal"
,now be led ?—There are other uses for halters. Where
now be -their lying prophecies of good measures from
bad men ? 0, the miserable attempters at deception !
the bought and sold, the bartered, the bandied about, the
prostituted I And yet it is well. You have no feeling in
common with these men, people of England ; you can
have no trust in them ; and we must not, we will
not. The washing of the Ethiopian, the removing
of the spots of the leopard, the bringing of a " clean
thing out of an unclean ;" all of the impossible and
the absurd that can be named, is more hopeful than
that any one Reform, be it what it may, can by any
possibility be in the least promoted by these men.
Yet, again we say, people of England, look at the
scroll ! mark well the names which appear therein ;
glance back to the whole period of their " deeds and
dealings"—and in the case of some of them the vista
is no short one—glance back, and say if there is one
redeeming atom in the whole lump ? Having done
so, glance forward, and say if there is any hope for
any one wish that is dear to you in the smallest tittle ?
There is none, there can be none. Behind, we find
the convulsion of the political criminal ; before, let us
see the execution of the law. They are wholly our
enemies, and they are enemies under military discipline—
" The enemy,' drawn up and drill'd,
Ready to charge in open field."
Shall we, then, we against whom their swords are
drawn, and their pikes brought to the charge—shall
we, the people of England, those who must pay, out
of the sweat of their brows, for the very fooleries of
these men—shall we, at the whistle of the fifers and

the rat-tat of the drum-boys to those legions of legiti-
mate corruptionists, disarm ourselves and surrender to
those who have destroyed, or, at least, laboured to de-
stroy, all that is good and desirable to us ? We
must not, we will not—we need not. The people of
this country have already won the battle—the Philis-
tines are already delivered into their hands. They
are so wholly and utterly bad, that no one, man, wo-
man, or child, can be led away by them. Even the
Times—the prostituted, the purchased, the miserable
Times—is constrained to be silent. They—even if
that " thing of all minds " has not a word of encou-
ragement to throw at " its own dogs"—must be very
bad—

" Exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, fallen."
Therefore (and it is a comfortable therefore) we have all
to hope, and nothing to fear from the Tory Adminis-
tration. But, on the other hand, how will it stand
with the worthies themselves ? Can they stand the
indignation of an enlightened, and, let us add, a dis-
gusted people. On a former occasion, "the Duke"
was defeated by the simple advice of " Go for gold.'
Again we say, "Go for gold," not the gold which
Janus loves, but that sterling ore which " makes the
man"—that gold of the liberal heart upon which Free-
dom leans, and which, to all her enemies, is as bad to
sink them in the mighty waters. God send that the
Duke and his subs may remain Tory to the core, and
then the battle of the honest men of these kingdoms
will be easy, and their triumph ample.—Morning
Advertiser.

Our paper this day exhibits what we believe to be
a correct list of the newly formed Administration, so
far as it has been completed. The Secretary for the
Colonies, and the Chief Commissioner of Woods and
Forests, do not yet appear to have been named, and if
both this officers (one of them of course must) have
seats in the Cabinet, it would extend that body to the
number of 15, being one more than the amount of
Members composing the Grey Administration ; but it
is not stated, nor do we know as a fact, that all the
persons in the list are to be Members of the Cabinet.

it be a fact, we must say that we do not see

the names of these Statesmen any reason to abandoi
the objections whichloccurred to us some days ago,
against the admission of so many persons into a Ca-
binet Council, which ought to be a knot of delibe
rators, rather than debators, and would with much
greater convenience and advantage be confined to
seven, or at the utmost nine individuals, than swelled
to 14 or 15. Sir Robert Peel has not yet been able
to find an opportunity to declare, in some distinct and
definite manner, how far he would be inclined to carry
those reforms, ecclesiastical and civil, which he never
could have thought of accepting the Ministry, in the
present state of England, had he not resolved to exe-
cute ; and we conceive that he will now feel it even
more incumbent on him, after the introduction into his
Government of some of the individuals in this list of
Ministers, to state his real intentions. Few of those
reasonable and discerning men, who looked to the Duke
of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel for a selection of
Ministers, which should present to the country the
primii facie evidence of harmony, moderation, and
high intelligence, as predominant characteristics of the
new Cabinet—few men, we say, of that description
would regard the introduction of some of its members
as affording, by the mere fact of their accepting office
without some collateral security, any guarantee for
their ready perception of what the reform spirit of
the nation called for—or of what the passing of
the Reform Bill itself rendered obligatory on an
enlightened Government. We are far from assert-
ing that satisfactory assurances may not be given of
the accession of these gentlemen, whom we need not

name, to rational views of the progress of legislation
necessitated by the reform of Parliament. All we allege
is, that no such assurance on their behalf has yet been
eiven, and that it is not at all implied by their precep-
-
ing history. Now, we do not think that reflecting
men throughout Great Britain have been prepared for
the insertion of some of the names upon this list of the
Conservative Administration. But here again we re-
peat, that a frank avowal of measures may redeem all
deficiencies, and remove all justifiable distrust. If the
avowal cannot be made, then will suspicion gather
round the new Government, and speedily overgrow it.
It will be asked, however, since we have all along
maintained the sufficiency of the Reform Bill to enforce
a liberal system of policy upon any Government, where
is the advantage of having any one set of men in pre-
ference to another—where the harm of such men as
those on whom we have been animadverting ? To
this the reply is easy. The Reform Bill in the long
run will make all right ; but it will operate differently
upon different classes of those statesmen all of whom
had opposed it. To prudent minds it will point out
the moral necessity of acting freely in correspondence
with its spirit, and of anticipating, by their measures,
any direct coercion of the Government, or its total
overthrow by the people. Upon men without prud-
ence, upon obstinate fanatics in things temporal or