Some of the Liberal journals, which were last year firm
allies of as Whig-Radical Ministry, exhibit disgust at the recent conduct of the Whigs. Among these is the Liverpool Albion; which says- " All faith in public melt begins to be paraly z•el and shaken. The Liberal put are lost in amazement at the strung.. miliaria of those la hum they have been nerd regard as th sir natural leaders. liven the London Ce,rier, herelohlre a stsi,lrj, !miter of the Nt Misters, has now °plied a raking fire open them, and, in no nleastek terms, rietiounees Lord Juba Russell as ' the snake in the grass' that does the We have int,selv es heard of some not-ible instances of his Lordship's double (leaky, allich may he revealed sonic day. Is his playing second to Sir Robert Peel them* of fear or friendship? Iles he aimed, the Tithe Hill to is from affection to 'Eery baronet ; ur because he finds him, like Siubad's old man of the island, too Golly seated to be easily shaken of:?"
The time for "amazement" at Whig treachery was many montlu back, when AIinisters threw over the Reformers, and allied themselves with the 'Posies and the Court. The same Liverpool paper, iu refer. mice to the lute session, says- " The farce is over. The curtain has dropped amidst the hisses of the people, upos it session %sheds ter recklessness or trackling, a we may use such a phrase. torsi*,
spirit. for tame submission on the part of the Commons to the 'l'ory the t, without a parallel ill the history or this country. We know not it !wilier there has boon trimming or treaeltery, apathy. or timidity ; brit this we know, . for wying is belie% hie, that, after all the struggles& the people he the cause of Reform --after their overt it ,g the well•coneented latiric of Toryism, and placing the reins°,
Government iu the hatals of tee Whigs- Whole harvest of their exertions hit sea, swept (Leto. The Whigs are, it is true, still nominally in &Hee ; hut the T•ey Look exert it dictator.hip over them, and possess the most unbounded power. without ail share or its lespensitetity."
All very true ; but the " trimming and treachery " was as real, and nearly as apparent, a twelvemonth ago as now.
The Durham Chronicle's eyes are also opened.
tt with the late of the Appropriation clause of the Tithe Bill fresh in recollection,mit cannot help sitspectim; that Lord John Russell is either labouring under a delivioaor that he intends to gi,e the go' by to a popular fratteltise,—as Ministers fount it mod convenient to deal with the principle which helped them into °nice, and which they have kicked :twat, with great professions of regret indeed, but without any other sip of reluctant, 'Elie alleged ' impossibility' of carrying the oue measure having suf. liced to cuter their retreat from the position they originally oceripied--the cry of 'Jos.
rice to ' having ended in a shabby and cowardly ;iliandonntent of that just ard glerierts principle—a similar paltry excuse may be brought forward as a reason fm mold og the principle a poplilar election in Municipal Corporations. The co:unionist is, t hot a 4 gave so basely false and hollow hearted be attempted, it cauuot by po d. bility seaweed."
The same paper is justly indignant at the Alinisters' abandonment of Lord Durham-
" 'Elie first exclamation of every individual who rends time Parliamentary debates or the week will be, that Lord Diahant is the worst-used man in the Queen's dominion'. It was input, a to Ministers that they only sent him to Canada in the hope &destroy- ing him ; and right irelustriutisly have they exerted themselves to jestity the charge. Their trim, ly tt uaiiiag under the Tory onslaught for which Mr. Tarton's typist merit fornisileil the hypocritical pretence, has been succeeded by conduct still gore lael.errel,, still more Later tuul ignuntillieus."
The Durham Chronicle is right. Whatever question as to the legality of Lord Durham's proceedings there may be, there is none whatever as to the treachery and baseness of the Ministerial treatment
of Mtn.
The Glasgow Argus (a Whig-Radical paper, which opposed Mr. Roebuck on his late visit to Glasgow,) has some striking senteneeson the close of the session, and what may happen hereafter, and soon- " Imes has the longest and idlest session on record gone out noiselessly, and like the last smuky flash or an expiring Callkile. The catastrophe is in admirable asepsis e at) what vent before. Ministers have attempted to rivet the public attenttou oa gills atrt ceremonials, and to gratify the young Sovereign's mind with mere giant aim public exhibition. Already she is posing echuless through the streets, and then!. fa any tti Whet' ihtln t'stai sounds muse he ja:iing kin her ear from the distance: the wilts tote's cry for bread —then complaints of unequal legislation—their demand of again more potential in the management of alloirs. The gay and trilling opening scene it over, and the serious business of the drama is about to commence. of commatilliog extent ;mid thrilling Interest. Amid the wild tempestleifiepoTullYuri.eltlitiblt& Mont, daring and a titbit hers spirits will contend for mastery. Tile dress awl sr:depot- t iiin of rho draut Cis perso:,:1) are, about to be lost sight of, and the interest roucontated on the real actors. Wouhi it were well over !"
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