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in their several provinces, and undisturbedly to
nominate, for two years, Conservatives to every
magisterial and municipal office. Tory Bishops
have been generously and simply invested with
the deputation of disposing of the Lord Chan-
chancellor's Church preferment most locally offen-
sive to the Reformers. The consequences of this
miserable and mistaken policy have been sorely
felt by the country, and was injuriously visited
on the Liberal candidates at the recent general
election. Nearly two hundred of the Members
of the late Parliament honestly and opportunely
remonstrated with a leading member of the Ad-
ministration against this execrable political
suicide of the Whigs, in a private but subscribed
remonstrance. The palpable policy of Lord
Grey is to confide in public opinion, and to be
guided by its power and influence ; that basis is
the only foundation of his Cabinet. A tem-
porising policy, and a cunning consultation of
the " art of government" of his enemies, may
meet present party emergencies ; but assuredly
an extreme fear of the machinations of the
Tories, and constant fencing to ward off instead
~f to destroy their power, will terminate in the
downfall of the Administration. It is an old

political axiom, that a temporier—a trimmer—
one who complies with times and occasions—
enjoys but a brief political existence. The
tricks and devices of a metropolitan club, or
Tory Clique, may demand contravention, but
he opinion of a nation calls for far more obser-
vation and respect. The state of parties in this
country is extraordinary and unparalleled. The
l'ories—if Lord Grey will see and believe—are
put hors de combat. In the Reformed House
of Commons they will rank as a miserable fac-
,ion. The House of Lords must conform to
the representation of the will of the people, or
1. "collision" fatal to the aristocracy must sooner
or later occur. And what is the strength of the
" Whig party ?" There is no such political com-
bination of men, in the former acceptance of the
Arne. Nay, the very " party" is dependent for
its being on the life of Lord Grey. No other pub-
lic man alive, or to be, can rally the forces of the
»arty, or give them effect and power. The Whigs
will die a natural death, and attend as mourners
the remains of schedule B, when the " final
measure" shall have been consummated. In-
deed Lord Grey could. not form, in 1830, a
" Whig" Administration. His Cabinet is com-
posed of various political allies; and infinite is
his merit, and happy the juncture of political cir-
cumstances, which enabled him, supported by
'he people, to dethrone the boroughmongers.
But the sagacity of Lord Grey must teach him
that a Juste-milieu administration of the Go-
vernment of this country cannot be long or suc-
cessfully maintained. His Reform Acts are
instruments in the hands of the people, which
'he people will use effectively, for the avowed
ind determined object of effecting a thorough
reformation in the administration of public af-

fairs. Practical reforms in every department o
" Church and State"—decided and liberal po.
icy in the promotion of active and enlightened
men—can alone give permanency to the Cabinet
if Lord Grey, or any other class or coalition of
oarty politicians. A new and rapid formation of
oublic character will take place, and the old sets
of placemeri and office-hunters will be annihi-
lated. A Juste-milieu House of Commons
may temporarily oppose a drag-chain to the po-
pular movement ; but, as assuredly as " know-
ledge is power," so sure will the people, through
the breach recently effected in the citadel of the
horoughmongers, storm the fortress of cor-
ruption. We have made these preliminary
observations in relation to the re-appoint-
ment of Mr. Manners Sutton to the Speaker-
ship of the Reformed Parliament. Some of
our liberal contemporaries—no doubt properly in-
4ructed—are bravely defending the intention of
this most extraordinary and disgusting re-ap-
oointment of a Tory President of the new House
of Commons. We say, disgusting, because it
is a monstrous violation of the Constitution that
I British Cabinet should be pre-arranging the
ippointment of the Speaker of a British Re-
formed Parliament, and a Press announcing the
•:election of the individual for that responsible
elective office, one calendar month before even
he Members of the Legislature have met toge-
(her ! We cannot, and will not, believe these
malicious reports. They are, doubtless, the
,pawn of the Dutch fabrications of the Tories—
...reated to take the place of the last exploded lies
of the Conservatives. Now, what are the facts
connected with the retirement of Mr. Manners
Sutton ? Unquestionably, the Ministry, at the
end of the last session, intended that the Ex-
Speaker should close his presidential career.
Lord Althorp, the leader of the House of Com-
mons, the acknowledged representative of the
Cabinet, on the voluntary announcement by the
Speaker of his official retirement, proposed on
the 30th July, " that an humble address be pre-
sented to his Majesty, that he will be graciously
oleased to confer some signal mark of his Royal
favour upon the Right Hon. Charles Manners
Sutton, for his eminent services in the six Par-
liaments during which he has discharged the
duties of Speaker of this House, ficc." On the
following day Lord Althorp reported his Ma-
jesty's answer to the address, " that his Majesty
is desirous, in compliance with the wishes of his
faithful Commons, to confer upon the said Right
Hon. C. Manners Sutton some signal mark of his
Royal favour; but as the same cannot be effec-
.ually granted and secured without the concur-
rence of Parliament, his Majesty recommends to
he House of Commons the adoption of such
measures as may be necessary for the accom-
plishment of this purpose." A grant of 4,0001.
per annum was therefore subsequently agreed by
the House of Commons, as a life pension to
he Speaker on his secession from the Chair,
with the reversion of 3,0001. a year to his heir
male. Lord Grey, unadvisedly we think, as we
have before stated, has refused the Ex-Speaker
hat " signal mark of Royal favour"—a Peerage
—which, under all circumstances, is not the
right, but the claim of Mr. Manners Sutton,
And which would have removed Mordecai from
the King's gate. The Ex-Speaker naturally de-
clines to sink into political insignificance. Those
who are feared are respected. He retires from
Scarborough, and is put forward for the Tory
High Church representation of the University
of Cambridge, in opposition to, and exclusion
of, a Whig candidate ! The Conservatives
cannot afford to throw away trump cards; and
immediately on the Honourable Member's re-
turn, a cabal is industriously commenced, aided
by the usual assistance of the Tory Press,
to put forward Mr. Manners Sutton in op-
position to Government for the Speakership
of the Reformed Parliament. The Ministry
ire charged by rumour with usurping the prero-
gative of the House of Commons, in the nomi-
iation of the Speaker ; and after their own
iberal candidate for the Chair has canvassed
Members for the office—and Mr. C. Wynne has
again hoisted his signals—report states that the