NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Tories deny that the result of the Registration has been un- favourable to their party ; and the Times has the assurance to _declare that the votes of the Liberal Members during the last session have "sealed their doom with their constituents, as well
in Scotland as in England." This is a specimen of the unblush-
ing falsehood now daily resorted to by the organs of the tottering Tory cause. We may safely ask the Times to mention one
Scottish Member on the Liberal side whose seat is in jeopardy ;
while Sir GEORGE CLERK, Mr. PRINGLE, Mr. ANDREW JOHN- STON, Mr. GEORGE SINCLAIR, and Major CUMMING BRUCE, have scarcely a chance of being returned at the next election. So much for Scotland. With regard to England and Wales, the balance of gain will be greatly on the side of the Reformers. The Tory journals have cautiously avoided giving the comparative number of claims sustained by either party; confining themselves to statements of the objections maintained or disallowed. We have also remarked, that but a small proportion of the lists revised by the Banisters are noticed at all by the Tories : the Liberals have been much more copious in their accounts. It cannot be sup- posed that the former have overlooked any facts favourable to their party; and therefore we may fairly presume that their silence has arisen from a consciousness of defeat.
The Standard says, that if the Reformers have really succeeded in 'materially improving their position on the register of votes, Lord MELBOURNE will at once dissolve the Parliament. To this it might be replied, that the Tories may do the same thing, if they are confident of gain; Sr with a satisfactory proof of pos- sessing a majority of the electors, it is scarcely to be doubted that the Court would again be at their service. But Lord MELBOURNE has already what has been proved to be a working majority, though a small one, in the House of Commons. Ministers were not once defeated by their antagonists last session. They can therefore manage very well to conduct the Government until the Municipal Reform shall have prostrated the Tory Corporations, and added to the strength of their own adherents in the country. It by no means follows that a delay in dissolving Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Parliament is to be attributed to a dread of the result of the next election.
We do not, however, pretend to any knowledge of the inten- tions of Ministers on this subject; and would recommend the Liberals to be prepared for a contest. \Yid' this view, the As- sociations, which have been found so serviceable in carrying on the struggle in the Revision Courts, should be maintained in a state of dircipline and activity. The Reformers are now in possession of valuable election-machinery ; let it be kept an good order, and ready for immediate use. It should be re- in.embered what labour and time were bestowed in its prepar- ation. How absurd and thoughtless ti would be to undergo the pains of reconstructing it! The Tories are not relaxing in their efforts. The Carlton Club has not been dissolved. On the contrary, we never take up a provincial paper without dis- cerning symptoms of its active agency. The journals of the Tory party teem with accounts of the quarterly meetings of Con- servative Societies, whose point of reunion is at the Club in Pall Mall: The efforts of this combination against the freedom of election have been in a great measure counteracted by the Reform Associations; but the necessity of continued exertion is as clear i now as ever t was. The enemy has not been vanquished, only pushed back.
