Star.
London, England, 1830-11-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TIM JOURNALS.

T,xzs.—The new Administration must retrench, and they must
reform, or radicalism will infallibly swallow them, and us, and all up.
They must retrench seriously, setting the example themselves ; and
they must reform moderately, but boldly and firmly. We have no
wish—the virtuous and honourable pm.kof the community hes no wish.—
to bear of annual Parliaments, and ballot, and universal suffrage ; but
an end must be put to Gatton and Old Sarum, and such infamies ; and
the vile mitt-arrangement of East itetford must be remodelled. If an
opposition, and a fatal opposition as Parliament is now constructed, be
raised by the aristocrats, in either or both houses, to the suppression
of sham boroughs, and to the amendment of the detestable no-repre-
sentation of Scotland, they do it at their own peril, and we fear at the
the risk of this yet happy country. We see, and we predict, the dan-
ger—we do not provoke it, but the present is no time to trifle with po-
pular feeling and general conviction.

CanowicLz—The members of the new Cobinet will never stand
unless they be persons of clear and unsuspected character ; pure In their
high function ; with direct and straightforward views ; disdaining all
compromise of principle, and resolved to carry those measures of re-
trenchment and reform which the voice of the people demands, or to
perish in the effort. They must throw themselves boldly and broadly
on the country. Such is the only chance of withstanding the Borough.
mongering Oligarchy ; for any attempt at conciliating men adverse to
popular rights, of conniving at abuses, and doing good only by stealth,
will be attended with the same well-merited failure in which ended the
imbecile Administration of Lord Goderich. We trust the lesson may
not have been given in vain. The friends of liberal measures never
were in a more advantageous situation, nor occupied loftier or stronger
ground; for it is impossible to fall back upon a High Tory Adminis..
tratioo. Let them, therefore, demand terms worthy of themselves and
their cause.

Cnitoxrcr.r.—Mr. Brougham has pledged:himself to the Free.
holden of Yorkshire to advocate the emancipation of Slaves hi the West
Indies. He has pledged himself also to submit a plan of Parliamentary
Reform. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman, perhaps, feels that no
Ministry of this county dare encounter the responsibility of emancipa.
ring the slaves, and if he formed part of a Ministry, he would, of course,
be obliged to defer to the opinion of his colleagues. With respect to
Parliamentary Reform, it is surrounded with still greater difficulties.
The power to be attacked here is at hand, not in a distant part of the
world. There are two great antagonist Powers, the Aristocracy and
the People—The Scylla and Charybdis of British politics. Clever
must the politician be who can steer the vessel of the State between
these rocks, without damage. Arian) has an amusing story of a youth.
ful pair, who were constantly pursuing each other ; but when the
pursuer overtook the pursued, the pursued turned and became pursuer.
Whoever inclines towards the people is pursued by the Aristocracy, and
whoever inclines towards the Ari.tocracy is pursued by the people.
I Whoever can solve the problem of distributing political power in such
a way as shall leave the Aristocracy and people satisfied with their res.
pective shares, will be possessed of no ordinary skill
Poe r.—Deeply and extensively was tbe public regret expressed
throughout the whole of yesterday at the resignation of Ministers, and
never certainly was there greater cause to deplore any event of a similar
nature. The impelling principles of the illustrious Premier and his
Colleagues were those upon which alone the Government of Britain
can safely or advantageously be conducted, the more especially at so
momectous a period as the present—in this awful crisis of our fate—
when all that is dear to us as • People may be lost by a single i2ll.
prudent concession to the wishes of bad men, who under the specious pre.
tepee of Reform, meditate nothing short of the destruction of the con.
st kudos and the consequent ruin of the state. Of the good intentions of
Earl Grey we entertain not the slightest doubt—we give the Noble Earl
full credit in this respect ; but if he once sneer himself to be swayed
or influenced by the evil spirits who will not fail to swarm around him,
his good intentions will be of no avail, and dreadful will be the conse-
quence to public security, to social order and civilised man. The King,
every reflecting mind must feel, has on so critical an occasion a most
arduous task to perform ; and the prayers of all must necessarily be
that wisdom and fortitude may safely bear him through such new and
untried scenes," and enable him successfully to encounter those &flail.
ties which events the most unnatural have thus unhappily brought
upon his Majesty,

HlRALD.,—Whatever difference :of opinion there may be as to the
penny-wise" policy of Lord Lansdowne's famous economical measure
of disbanding the y , we should think there can he none as to
that of reviving them, with the views and for the purposes avowed at
the Rochester meeting. That the yeomanry force was we of the most
valuable, because the most chi ,p and constitutional, which the country
could possess, is what none can doubt, but those who are always talking
of libertyond doing all they can to defeat It. But it is foe thing to possess
such a force, ready **any emergency, and quite another to mamas It,
for the express purpose of putting arms in the bands of one class of
the community to be employed in deciding their personal quarrel with
another. This was al ways an objection, and almost the only valid ob-
jection to the yeeutanry—that they tan the risk of being &led upon to
decide, with inns in their hands, their own personal qualm& Ben, to
revive them foe that expos purpose, would bespeak • spirit of infant-
Wen and injustice which would threw a cloud for ever wise evezychanes
of their feture usefulness. The Kentish fanons, then, in minims this
sill, have by no means compionsised their patriotism, while they have
shown their geed sane. Nee Is is by hem that the present stale of
ships h the dirtutbsd districts can be best overcome. Let the Woos. ,
ors only have jostles dose them, and they will require neither =plus
Der yeennary to keep them is order.