Such are specimens of the support which the Whigs receive

from the press. There are, however, few papers professing to be Liberal 'who do not assume a more independent tone ; and it must be remarked, that many of these journals have hitherto inclined to Melbourne-Whig Its. dicalism. Scarcely one, among those from which the following extracts are taken, but would have shrunk two years ago from uttering similar opinions.

DURBAN CHnoxicr.s.—With all our indignation at the defections of the Whig. Government from their early principles, we cannot but grieve at the poor fulfilment of their great promises that we have been doomed to witness. " The Ministry of the People," as they were emphatically called in 1834, what tire they now 11 They seem now to have reached the lowest depth of degrees. tion to irhich the abandonment of the opinions that raised them to office Qs sink them—assuming. as we presume we are warranted in doing, that Lord John Russell speaks -the mind of his colleagues in the Government. But we will not despond for the cause they have so outrageously betrayed. When things come to the worst, they must mend; and the hour of recovery may be nearer at hand than we Wink of.

SUNDERLAND HERALD.—Honest measures from honest hands are at en times desirable; but to receive a part of one's own, even from a gang of thieves, seems to be better than to be kept out of possession of every thing, by the supineness of those who appear to have neither the .power nor the will to rescue the prey lions the hand of the spoiler. The Tones would, perforce, do some p..,00d for a short lease of office; the Whigs "intend well,". dawdle, and do nothing—but keep their places.

TYNF: MERCURY.—Of what extent and importance would the Reform party have now been considered, if the Ministers, whenever they deemed it useful, had called on the people to support them, and had relied on them, and on them alone, instead of vapouring: between the Peers and the Throne, and shirking and manoniverim„ff and playing fast and loose, as the present Government have done? if, instead of one day looking vastly noble, talkingmightily large, anti displaying a grand appearance of patriotic &termination, and on the next turn. ing their backs on the People and complacently coquetting with the Lords, they had convinced the former that they wished not to be one moment longer in office than they deemed themselves the acknowledged Ministry of the coun- try, by the country itself, would the Reform party have been what we now see it ?

CARLISLE JOURNAL.—Unfortunately, approbation of their conduct must be confined almost entirely to Ireland. Thew shortcomings, their irresolution, their truckling, and, above all, their mean adoption of the cry of their enemies about the "finality" of the Reform Bill, have, to say the very least of it, de- stroyed the confidence which Reformers were anxious to place in them.

MANCIIESTER TIMES.—The time is past for that faint-hearted Whiggism represented in the press by such journals as the Guardian. That must merge into Toryism, from which it can scarcely now be distinguished. The Obstnic- fives and the Destructivcs must each he pushed aside, and the Practical Pros gressives must move onwards, with one heart and one mind, to the reform of the Reform Bill.

Lnsos TIBES.—For our own part, we are sick of Whig shuffling, and should like to get rid of it, even at the risk of Toryism. Give us something to concentrate our efforts upon. 1Ve cannot afford inertness in these times : it leads to death. Faction is working while we sleep, and organizing itself while we are falling to pieces. Welcome Toryism, then, if with it comes Union—a union of the people which shall make the oppressed go free.

SHEFFIELD INDEPF.NDENT..--.It is now universally admitted that Ministers cannot much longer maintain their position on Irish ground alone. They have ceased to represent the principle of Progression. By declaring the Finality of the Reform Bill—by their semi-Tory policy on a variety of questions—by their denial of a hearing to the complaints of the country against the Corn- monopoly—they have so completely disgusted and disheartened the Reformers, that, be the consequences what they may, the Government must either reas- sume their proper character and attitude, or give place to the Tories. It is a question whether the adoption of a more energetic spirit of Reform could now save the Cabinet; but it is the last chance.

SHEFFIELD IRIS.—" Deserting Ministers," indeed! Have not the Whigs deserted "the Radical Members of the House of Commons" on every question to which they were virtually pledged by their previous professions ? And have not the Radical Members taken the advice of Mr. Hume on every occasion which threatened the downfal of the present Ministry, and voted black to be white on purpose to keep them in office ? Who were the first party to desert their friends ? The Whig Ministry. No single measure which has ever been brou,_altt forward by a Radical Member has had the slightest favour shown it by

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the higs or their party. Even their Irish policy, Which is to be the ground- work of their trial, has not met with the justice that country had a right to look for The Radical Members have borne the treatment they have expe- rienced very patiently ; and as they must belie their consciences in voting con- fidence imi the present Ministry, we do not see how they can support them. The result may possibly be that a Tory Ministry will supplant them—but what of that ? They cannot hold office above a few months. Now is the time for Reformers to take their proper stand. Let the test of all proposing candi- dates be, Household Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, Triennial Parliaments, no Pro- perty Qualification, no Taxes on Conscience and Free Trade—and it matters little to the country- what party are nominally at the helm of the State.

HULL OBSERVER.—Lora John Russell joins with the Tories to defeat the Liberals : would he have any cause of complaint were the latter, in his hour of need, to refuse their votes to him against the Tories ? Might they not fairly say, "Often and often you divide with Tories against us—now test the value of Tory friendship ; repeatedly' have you preferred alliance with them to union with us; and do you now solicit our protection against these fine friends, who would turn upon and rend you ?" DERBY REPORTER.—Discontent everywhere prevails with the present state of things; and if we go on much longer, a change will be universally hailed, whatever that change may be, with the hope that it will help us oat of this slough of despond. LEICESTERSIIIRE MERCURY.-01Connell has his game toplay ; hewilldoubts less come to the help of the hard-beset Ministers with his old cry of " Hurrah for Ireland ! keep out the Tories !" Let him. The Radicals of England owe him nothing ; but they have served for Ireland many a long day, and done her many a good turn, and now they owe something to their own interests ; 'tis a golden opportunity, and must oot ise last. The Ministers must be told this in serious earnest ; not in the mock, got-up, well-understood gravity of a player, but in the tones of reality not to be mistaken. " Our votes on this question are yours; but, mark you, 'tis the last time. We demand the extension of the Suffrage, Short Parliaments, the Ballot, &c. If you do not abandon your abs surd and ridiculous Finality-notions, we discard you ; we throw you off; and we leave you to the fate to which we can at any tiine expose .you, to be driven from your seats like chaff before the burning blast of Tory hatred and. scorn!" Such a result—the ousting of the Whigs, if they will not accede to these demands—we can look upon with calm content. HERTFORD REFORMER.—Ministers will have a majority of some 12 or 14 to rescue them from their bnpending fate; but their difficulties will then recom- mence. They can do nothing. Their fate is in the hands of Sir Robert Peel, who may destroy them any dayby moving a vote of general want of confi- dence, in which the Ra&cals would inevitably join ; and as to carrying any large or useful measure, even if they are allowed to tide over the remainder of the session amidst the thousand difficulties which the state of affairs both at home and abroad. must give rise to, it is not to be thought of, and is not thought of by any one man now in power—Dr rather in office, for power they have 00110. BRIGHTON HERALD.—Lamenting, as we sincerely do, the position to which the present Administration is reduced, we confess that, after the timid halting policy which it has latterly pursued, we are not at all surprised at the lakewarnmess of the nation as to the fate with which it is threatened.

THE MATT/STONE GAZETTE.--We must confess that we should not be suf- ficiently hypocritical to lament deeply if the discussion on the state of Ireland on the 15th instant should terminate the existence of the present Ministry. Practically they are scarcely distinguishable from the Tories ; they have de- clared themselves the disciples of Finality, and have draggeti their friends through the dirt too long already. The further they go the more their vacilla- ting and Finality policy -brings Reform principles ini-0 disrepute and derision. The Reform Bill must be reformed, should it cost the existence of a hundred. Ministries.

HAMPSHIRE INDEPENDENT.—The country will no longer bear empiricism. It is sick at heart, and. requires a bolder surgery and more vigorous appliances. Sincerely do we hope that the few sturdy Reformers yet left to us in the House of Commons will rally and turn the coming sham tight into a real one. The question must not, rrs the mere Whigs desire, be narrowed into the question of "the administration of justice in Ireland," but must bc widened to the admi- nistration of the powers and duties qt Government over the entire empire. The stale plea of "letting the Tories in" must not be listened to. " Wolf, wolf has been cried too otten, and the shepherd Ebrington has at last been taken from the fold. * * * What the people will not put up with openly front the Tories, they will not longer submit to covertly from the Whigs. Tlie pro- fessiona of Whigs and Tories may very, but their policy has been and is the same.

DUBLIN Firer.mAN's JOURNAL.—The long-lived phomomenon of the pre- sent Government is, we think, easily accounted for. It has " lived, moved, and had its being " in the support of that party—the Radical party—whose power the Globe affects to despise, when compared with the overwhelming influence of the sober, instructed, thinking men who are simply Liberal. The present Government, in point of fact, owes its existence to the forbearance of the Radicals; and it is at once foolish and ungrateful of the Ministerial organ to make light of the party to whom its masters are so deeply indebted.

BELFAST NORTHERN Wuro.—If the movement which is called. for be in- tended to issue only in a servile vote of cooPlence, it would be better that no movement should take place. Let us have some measures proposed, worth con- tending for, and let us insist that the Ministry to whom our confidence is to be given shall support those measures. If the present Government refuse to do so, it will then be evident that they do not deserve a vote of confidence. If they accede to the terms, they will thereby secure public sympathy, and be sustained by the people in a genuine struggle for popular rights.

SCOTTISH PILOT.—Things are now come to such a pass, that in the very stronzhold of the Whig party, [Edinburgh,] a successful Whig meeting cannot be held without resorting to measures which, in so far as they are acted upon, must take from it the character of a public assembly of' the inhabitants. The case was very different three or four years ago, when it was thought necessary at any time to give the Melbourne Administration the benefit of an Edinburgh meeting. Then no precautions were necessary; no care was required to avoid a premature announcement, or to eschew any particular hour or day, from an apprehension of popular interference. It is beyond dispute that the popular feeling towards the present Government has undergone a great change, and that scarcely any, beyond their immediate party adherents, feel much anxiety or would. make any great effort to uphold them in power.

GLascow Attu us.—Mr. Hume [in a late debate] objected. to the system now acted upon. "It was suffered because we had neither a Government per an Opposition. We wanted a good economical Opposition. Reformers were in a false position!" Mr. Hume is right : he and his friends are in a false po- sition; and they can only get out of it by giving up Ministers.

DUMFRIES TIMES—Hitherto we have reposed. great confidence in the Examiner ; at the same time, we reluctantly discountenanced the warnings and arguments of the Spectator during the last two years, as to the general policy which ought to be pursued by the Liberals. * * All the arguments of the Examiner now go for nothing ; his confiding inferences front the principles and declarations of Ministers are utterly annihilated. The Spectator's argu- ments, long enforced, and originated either by superior sagacity, superior in- formation, or more fortunate surmise—these are now irrefragable, be- cause they are established by the evidence of Ministers themselves, who declare against a reform Of the Reform Bill, and, of consequence, of the present Tory House of Commons—which, backed by the hereditaries of the Upper House, can at all times stifle the small still representative voice for political and social regeneration. It is asked, why part with the Whigs, when you must necessarily get a more anti-Liberal Adminktration—namely, a Tory Ministry? We answer, the Whigs are now doing that tio. the cause of Toryism which the Tories themselees could not accomplish.

To complete the exhaustive proecss, which the Dumfries Times seems desirous or applying to this solution, another eV should be titled—' or superior de- termination to speak the truth, to the best of Ids knowledge and beliel."—EA of SpecAtur.1