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which the head was favourable to the Roman Ca=
tholic Claims; but unless we have been misinforin
ed, that objection will not meet him in the arrange-
ment to which we have alluded, even if the Noble
Marquis were Premier. It is, indeed, generally
understood, that since he has seen de pre:, the re-
ligionists of whose cause he was so long an eloquent
advocate, his sentiments have been very greatly mo-
dified. The second Cabinet which may be formed,
is one of pure Whigs, including such of the party
as formed a part of the late Ministry. Of this Earl
Grey would be the head, and it would be no diffi-
cult matter to name, with considerable precision, the
different members. The talents and pretensions of
every individual of the party are, indeed, well de-
fined, and well known. In the present House of
Commons, we do not know that such a Cabinet might
not command a narrow majority. In the Lords, their
chance would be small ; and, in the country, a Grey
Ministry would have no chance at all. We consider
it, therefore, quite unnecessary to discuss, either for
censure or for praise, what might be their principles
or what their projects; we feel assured that we
shall not have them, The third and last possible
combination of a Ministry would be one formed of
the -old Tories. Were these to combine with the
adherents of Mr. Canning, to the 'exclusion of the
Whigs merely, perhaps a fourth, scarcely differing,
however, by a very slight shade from the first we
have enumerated, might be formed; but it cannot
have escaped notice, that their partizans have inva-
riably expressed a stronger disapprobation of Mr.
Huskisson, and those more peculiarly connected
with the late Mr. Canning, than even of their Whig
coadjutors. The only remaining Cabinet, therefore,
seems to be the pure Tory Cabinet, to the ex -1
elusion of the Canningites as well as the Whigs.
This party has a strong voice in the country
among the aristocracy—among the merchants—
among the monied men—but we doubt the pos-
sibility of their endurance with the present
House of Commons. In the House of Lords
they might command a majority. The princi-,
pal lack, however, of the pure Tory party is, to
use a French term, in its personnel. Taking away
Mr. Peel, who, in fact, rather belongs to the Liberal
Tories, and although a gentleman of great talents,
cannot make a Cabinet in his own person, whom
have they for Speakers or Debaters in the Lower
House ? There are many young men of respecta-
bility there, but none who can lead or second, with
the exception of Mr. Peel, and of this the Right
Hon. Gentleman was aware when he declared, in
the month of April, that he had not materials for
the formation of a pure Tory Ministry. We have,
perhaps, as much real respect for Mr. Dawson
as those who would push him forward on this
occasion, but we cannot forget that he has
never occupied a higher station than his brother-
in-law's deputy, and that whatever his talents may
be, he must, in the course of things, be content
for a time to follow—and it is not followers
that his party wants. Looking, therefore, to these
three combinations coolly and dispassionately, we
have no hesitation in saying that the first will best
satisfy the country, and that the less the disturbance
of places and occupants produced by the necessary
changes, the better will the nation be gratified.—
The third Cabinet, in the ceder in which we have
given them, will be next in strength to the first, and
therefore most desirable ; the second the feeblest of
Neither the third nor the second, we conceive,
would stand if formed—certainly they would not
stand steadily or long, and we should at length be
driven to the task of re-collecting the scattered frag-
ments of the late Cabinet, and have the labour of re-
edifying a structure which requires but a few slight
alterations, and a few slight additions, to render it a
model of strength as well as of syrometry.7---.New
7imes. •

We are sorry to observe the attempts that
continue to be daily made by some of our cotempo-
raries to give the most glaringly false colouring,. if
not totally to pervert the facts regarding the happy
diisolution of perhaps the most week, contemptible,'
and dangerous Administration with which this
country has ever been cursed. But such being dis-
reputably the case, we feel ourselves called upon
once more to expose the gross imposture, and
briefly to place the whole affair before the public in
its clear and proper light. It is not true, we again
fearlessly assert, that the question of the Finance
Committee was the only or real cause of the
event at which the public now so universally
and sincerely rejoice. On the contrary, it was
merely a secondary and minor cause, - and, there
is every reason to believe, was resorted .to
by the Whigs as an artful subterfuge to
cover their disgraceful retreat. The proposed
Whiggish formation of the Committee of Finance,
not in a manner calculated to answer the desired
purpose, but merely to suit the views of an intriguing
party, was certainly objected to by the responsible
Minister of Finance (Mr. Herries), who in the due
discharge of his duty wished the whole proceeding
to be strictly impartial and duly effective to the in-
tended end. His objection to the proposed Chairman,
as a devoted party man (who was nominated without
his having been even consulted upon the subject), was
made not only upon the soundest public principles, but
in the purest spirit of patriotism and national advan-
tage. These however (though the Whigs basely avail-
ed themselves of them to impose upon the credulity
of the vulgar and the thoughtless) were only the
secondary causes of the happy results which so
speedily succeeded the failure of the artful intrigue.
As we have already stated, the great question of war
or peace had decided the Cabinet, and the time had
come when a weak inefficient Minister could no
longer hold the balance between contending princi-
ples. The time had also come when it was to be
decided whether Whig influence should predominate
by Lord Holland's admission into the Cabinet, or
whether the Whig Party should be themselves
ejected in disgrace. The propitious result is known
—eternal thanks to our gracious Monarch, whose
laudable conduct on this occasion is now the uni-
versal theme of admiration and gratitude throughout
the land.---Morning Post.

BATHOS.—Not long since, an eminent lawyer
of Ohio, closed a pathetic ha►angue to a jury in the follow-
ing strain :—." And now the shades of night bad shrouded
the earth in darkness. All nature lay wrapt in solemn
thought, when these defendant ruffians came rushing like
a mighty torrent from the hills down upon the abodes of
peace—broke open the plaintiff's door--separated the weep-
ing mother from her screeching infant—and took away
my client's rifle, gentlemen of the jury, for which we charge
fifteen dollars."— Greenock Advertiser.

The Tyne Mercury of Tuesday says :--(i A
letter has been received in this town from Cockermouth,
stating the loss of the large steam-vessel, the So/way, on
Thursday last. The Solway was a very fine vessel, and
traded between Carlisle and Liverpool. Great anxiety
prevailed among many of the inhabitants of Whitehaven,
who expested friends by her. The part of the coast en
which she was lost is not yet known, but we are happy to
learn that the passengers were all saved." This is alto-
gether untrue, and is part of a system to decry and injure
a most useful establishment. —Carlisle Patriot.

SHIPWRECK.—The sloop Liver, of Bedu-
maris, about 80 tons burthen, GRIFFITH Jobuts, master,
from Cork, bound to Bristol, laden with 125 pigs, having
suffered from a gale at sea, was, on Thursday, the Sd inst.
driven on shore near Angle Block House, at the south
entrance of Milford Haven, where, in a few hours, she
went to pieces.—The crew and passengers, fifteen in•
number, whereof seven were soldiers, going on furlough,
and three of their wives, were most miraculously preserved,
by creeping over the bowsprit to the rocks; Whence, by
great exertion, they ascended the cliff sufficiently high to
prevent thembeing washed off into the sea, where they
were obliged to remain till after day-light, which showed
them their perilous situation.—A boy belonging to the
vessel scaled the dangerous precipice, upwards of 200 feet
in height, at immense risk, and safely arrived on the top,
when he proceeded to the nearest farm-house and gave the
alarm.—Assistance was immediately rendered, cart ropes
provided, and the sufferers below were hauled up the preci-
pice, one by one, in safety, with the exception of some cuts
and bruises against the different projections in their passage.
The tide had by this time receded, and eighteen of the pigs
'were saved by the same means, as well as a part of the ves-
sel's sails and materials ; all the latter have been sold for
the benefit of the concerned.— Cambrian.