POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
It is gravely stated by the Standard this evening, that the Queen, ac- companied by Lord and Lady IlowE and Lord DENBIGII—( Lord HOWE her real and favourite, Lord DENBIGH her nominal and Whig Chamber- lain)—intends to spend two months on the Continent during the ensu- ing summer. The Standard takes pains to convince its readers, that her Majesty's " little excursion" has no connexion with the remodel- ling of the Cabinet ; which we are told the King is now, and long bus been, anxious to effect. The anxiety of the Sovereign to avert the danger to his family and people which the continuance of the present Ministry threatens, is, it would seem, openly and frequently expressed. Let us here offer a conjecture. Though the King is thus minded, the antipathy of the British nation to an infusion of Tory politics into the
Cabinet is well known : may not the object of the Queen's
journey be, to obtain the sanction and support of those important fo- reign powers, the Cabinets of Saxe-Mei [tinge'', Saxe- Coburg, and Salms, for the projected change? Our contemporary has given us a pro- gramme of the new Ministry. It is to be reconstructed • • • " upon a plan embracing whatever is valuable in the present Cabinet,—MV Sir. Stanley, Mr. Rice, and perhaps Lord Brougham ; the better part of the Iasi Cabinet, including, of course, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, and the great and trusted leaders of the out Conservative party. There can he no question that such a Cabinet would supply the strong govern- ment of which his Majesty is wisely and ardently desnotts; because it would form a government possessing overwhelming talent in Parliament, and com- manding the implicit confidence of the people in its wisdom, fidelity, and firm- pets. The period of the Queen's absence would, however, probably coincide with the time of the new arrangement ; and as her Majesty's dispositions are known to be prudent and Conservative, we may expect to hear that she is to be sent out of the way in order to prevent the completion of such a plan as we have surmised. Now, nothing can he more untrue than this."
But the Queen, sifter all, is not to be sent out of the way ; for the Standard, in a postscript, says it is informed that the announcement of her Majesty's journey is premature ; and confesses that it cuts a fool- ish figure in telling two such inconsistent stories. As, however, the support of foreign potentates must be necessary to the establishment of a Tory Cabinet in England, since such a Cabinet would receive little support at home, it is not improbable that Lord Howe will be des- patched to the Gentian Courts before-mentioned, on a special mission to secure their countenance to her Majesty's Conservative projects.
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