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in order to avoid the delicate atten-

tneir country

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Lions of the bailiffs, have potent reasons for upbraiding
their old master. He might have carried on the business,

which

was both pleasant and profitable to the parties con-
cerned, to this hour, had he used the commonest

. cretion ;

for nobod

But overweening vanity turned the
little man's brain the seamy side without. He was
not content with the well enough. He cried—" Yes,
1 know I am strong as SAMSON; but I must be
stronger still. I have three hundred and sixty men

sought to deprive him

of the concern

in buckram at my beck and call, whereas my ene-

'alias have not above two hundred and sixty ; but I must

have a hundred more, in order to do things like a regular
British lion, and I know the safe way to get them. Obey
me, and you shall see how I will do the trick." Well,

the mighty conjuror has had his way, and he has done the
trick ; but, oh ! instead of gaining the hundred he counted

on, he has lost more than half that number of his antient

comrogues ; and counting every man Jack who wears a
patch of his colour, he cannot make the

' tottle of the

17:Elale::“Une,4,9a.fisiT..?„°!, three Ilgni`iteLrglighlvtlt.h
run ahead of him, with every prospect of multiplication.
the result of the elections up to this mo-
Majesty's Government will have a fair

In plain terms,

that her

working majority, and that any attempt to overthrow it at

the meeting of Parliament, by a vote of want of confidence
or any other factious manoeuvre, should such be made,
will be a dead failure. Such members of the old Whig

!onfederacy as dare speak their opinions, admit as much

and confess that they sec

Lo chance of preventing the

Government from laying their programme of measures
and policy in the proper formal way before the country.
As the old Speaker, Slimy LEFEVRE, will in all probabi-
lity be again proposed, no adverse vote can arise on that
question ; and as all the respectable portion of the Whig
following itself would scout any resolution of direct cen-
sure on the Administration before they have time to de-
velopa their intentions, it will be useless to try that dodge.

Protection is dead, entombed, we have only to sing

its requiem," used to be shouted every morning and
echoed every evening—used to be bellowed from reeking
platforms and repeated from inodorous lecture tables.
Why is not its requiem sung now in full chorus ? True,

we do occasionally hear a little squeak from some pun

organ, but the voice is a very small one, and its tone is of
the dismalest. It is manifest that the doleful ditty is
sung from the wrong side of the mouth. It is the song
not of the dying swan, but of the expiring goose, roasted
after the manner of our ancestors. Protection dead !
umberland, and Kent, and Essex, and the Isle of
Wight, and Norfolk, and Oxfordshire, and Berkshire, and
Cambridgeshire give the lie in the throat to such asser-
tion ; and the unhappy Sir GEORGE GREY, with the
rejected squad of cosmopolitan humbugs and universal
peace theorists, who have been ignominiously " sacked,"
are forced to swallow the lie with what philosophy they
may command. It is Whig-Radicalism and Manchester
millocracy that is dead and hearsed in earth, and over
which the great majority of the House of Commons will
chant the De Profundis on its assembling in October next.
So the first assault against Ministers is to be led either
by Sir JAMES GRAHAM or Mr. JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK,
or both. What a precious pair to lead a forlorn hope!—

Arcades anzbi

Et cantare pares, et respondere parati

What a patriotic, pure, and disinterested fight it will be,
under such condottieri—the border free lance, the merce-
nary beau sabreur Sir JRAMES, and the galvanised
mummy, the " shrivelled adder," with the venomous
tingue. that spits on friend and foe alike, JOHN ARTHUR.
This desperate brace of rogues and. •apparecs are, it seems,

" ''..^",rin the House of Commons, on its meeting, to
some grand general melee. W hat ground will be cnosen,
and what kind of defiance will be thrown down, is yet a
secret, locked in the bosom of the conspirators. But we
eau afford to fold our arms, and wait in patience for the
coming of the threatened onslaught, which is to pulverise

Lord DERBY and his gallant army of true men

" Off to thediggings !" isstill thecry heard on allsides."
Eastward, ho !—Australia and her yellow sands !"

)unds from all parts

men in pub

Clerks are throwing up their

offices are taking French leave