A NEW DISCIPLE OF THE SPECTATOR.
LORD Pararnairrox has manfully avowed himself, a late, it is true, but thoroughgoing convert to one of the most Whig-abhorred doctrines of the Spectator. He must therefore expect to draw down upon himself the vials of Whig wrath—to be, Actwon-like, devoured by his own hounds. "I do honestly believe," said the noble Lord, with intense solemnity, on the 23d of the month of June just ended, "from what we have seen passing before our eyes in this country, that if they [the Tory Ministers] were to yield to the appeal made by us, [to retire from their places,] they would have another appeal made by the people of England, requesting them to return to their places. The time is not come when any party but that which sits opposite can, advantageously to the public and with the general concurrence of the people, administer the affairs of this country." Never—not even when submitting resignedly to the Ministry which, whether in wrath or in mercy we said not, "God had given us "—did the Spectator go beyond PALMERSTON in this passage. The truth is, that, like all new converts, he uses strong language : "youthful admiration vents itself freely." But if we grieve for ParmERSTOR on the score of Whiggish resentment, it is not with- out hope. Converted persecutors have always made the best martyrs : we are therefore quite prepared to see this late proselyte from faction outstripping all his precursors in the race of self- denying, independent patriotism.
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