TORY AGITATION.
Tux Tories are endeavouring to prop up their drooping cause by
invoking the pressure from without. They are doing their best to enact with effect the parts of political incendiaries. Through-
out the country the emissaries of the Carlton Club are busied in getting np addresses to the King and Sir ROBERT PEEL, con- demning the conduct of the House of Commons and the last change in the Royal councils. Sir ROBERT PEEL told the party at the Lord Mayor's Dinner, that the country called loudly for repose, and that it was sick of agitation. In order to testify his desire to comply with the national wishes, Sir ROBERT, a few days after the delivery of the speech, threw the whole country into a state of prolonged and vehement agitation, by dissolving the Parliament. His partisans, finding that their appeal to the electors has ended in the discomfiture of their chief, are now engaged in following up the system of exciting the people out of doors. They pretend to be the exclusive friends of order ; but all their proceedings tend to produce confusiou. T hey profess un- bounded loyalty to the Kiog ; hut they are striving to embarrass the progress of his Government. If the people are taught tO re- gard the constituted authorities with disrespect, whose fault is it, if not that of the Tories? The Liberals of the lieu se of Commons are reviled as liars, outcasts, vagabonds, perjured and penny- less scoundrels, by the organs of the Tory party. In that olajority are to be found the representatives of the old aristocracy of the country—the RUSSELLS, HOWARDS, STA NLEYS, CAVE N INS HE S, TALBOTS, SEYMOURS, CAM PBE L LS, STUARTS, HAM I LTONS, BUT- LERS, and FITZGERAL DS ; of the monied aristocracy—the Gnosvs- NORS, LANSDOWNES.GOWERS, and WENTWORTH S ; of the wealthy bankers and merchants—the DENISON'S, GROTES, PATTISONS, COCKERELLS, HEATHCOTES, MARSH ALLS, PH ILL I PSES, SMITHS, Ron/tarns, and BIDDULPHS ; of the country gentlemen of Eng. land, Scotland, and Ireland—the BE AUM ONTS, WROTTESLEYS, LITTLETONS, ORBS, CURTEISES, BYNGS, FERGUSONS, and BE L- LEWS. These are the men, with their associates, whom the Tories, foolishly audacious, hold up to the country as conspirators against the King and the Constitution. In the most violent periods of popular excitement, even in the dark days of CASTLEREAGH and SIDMOUTH, the practice of vilifying the Supreme Council of the Nation was never so recklessly and perseveringly followed as in our own times by the enraged and baffled Tory faction. The King is exhorted, by these disturbers of the public tranquillity, to con- tinue a Ministry in power whom the National Representatives re- fuse to trust. This is the burden of the numerous addresses to the King and Sir ROBERT PEEL, which have been so industriously got up in every part of the country. If at sonic future time the masses should resolve to act in accordance with the principles now sought to be instilled into them,—if they should really set at nought the authority of Parliament, and treat the majority of the Repre- sentative body as a despicable faction,—the Tories may look back upon their present proceedings, and curse the disorganizing spirit they had raised.
It is gratifying to know, that notwithstanding their virulence and industry, and the unscrupulous methods which they take to inflame the public mind, the Tories have not as yet succeeded in moving the masses. They make a vast parade of the places in which addresses have been got up to Sir ROBERT PEEL; but it is worthy of remark, that in no one place of any size or im- portance have they ventured to call a public meeting. Their proceedings are all in the" hole-and-corner" style—snug and safe from the intrusion of those whose concurrence they falsely pretend to have secured. Unquestionably there are many Tories in England, and more who from fear of their landlords and patrons are obliged to follow in the wake of Toryism. But the fact that the party has invariably avoided public meetings, is of itself conclusive evidence that they are everywhere in a minority of the inhabitants.
A cursory glance of the list of paces from which addresses have been sent up to Sir ROBERT PEEL, will convince all but the most ignorant and bigoted, that the mass of the nation does not partake in the Tory longing to see the Impostors restored to power. If the great towns and counties had joined the Tory movement, we should not have seen addresses from 280 such in- significant hamlets as the following paraded in the Post, Standard, and Times. Only look at the list which we subjoin, as a fair specimen of the vast majority of the Tory gathering.
Upton Magna, Longden, Aisholt, Horbling, Horfield, Hitchin, Little Gadsden, Chilmark, Uffculme, Watton, Firhy, Teffont, Teffunt Evais, Brewood, Tartaragban, Livinesbead, Isle of Anxholme, Poulton, Gravelev, Boor n, Tathwell, Battlefield, Dalverton, Hayes, Eglwysfach.
Some of these places we know to be monk the very smallest that can be called hamlets ; but of the majority we confess that we never heard till now.
The object of this parade of names is to impose upon the igno- rant; and it is certain that to some extent at least the attempt will succeed. It therefore may be necessary to counteract it by calling on the Nation to speak forth in its might. Let public meetings be called in the counties and the principal towns; let the Tories be invited to try their strength at them ; and let the real sentiments of the people be known. A wise example has been set in Edinburgh, where a meeting attended by fifteen hun- dred of the inhabitants was held, and an address to the King agreed to, which in a short time received 13,000 genuine signa- tures. The Tories dare not call a public meeting in London, Dublin, or Edinburgh. As Mr. GI SBORNE truly told Sir ROBERT PEEL, lie was popular at Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, but discarded by the inhabitants of the three British capitals.
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