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face after this display, we are at a loss to conceive ; but certain we 

 are, that all the foolscap in his warehouse would not suffice to furnish 

 forth (ears included) a covering for that vacant globe called, by 

 courtesey, his head commensurate with his deserts as a donkey. 



We are prepared for a bushel of Tory impertinence from a chief 

 magistrate of that persuasion ; but we, assuredly, hardly expected to 

 receive it by the " Winchester measure." 



THE " OPERA" or THE CABINET. We find the following in the 

 " Quarterly Review," just published : 



" There were two parties in the Cabinet: one, the majority, we fear, 

 thought that they could not meet Parliament without announcing- some 

 strong measures of what they called church reform ; or, to speak more 

 truly arid plainly, church spoliation." 



We really cannot by any means understand, or lend a sympathetic 

 ear to, the various tunes which the organs of the Tory Cabinet are 

 simultaneously grinding for us. 



We are told upon " unquestionable authority," in some of the 

 newspapers, that the Duke of Wellington intends to proceed with 

 Church Reform ; and yet the Quarterly Review, the most powerful 

 instrument of the whole, repeats the old air of "things as they 

 are," " the diapason closing in lluf" church and corruption for 

 ever-. 



Now, we may be permitted to enquire whether these jarring, if 

 not discordant melodies, emanating, as they do, from the same par- 

 ty, or rather faction, do not warrant the people of England in not 

 only withholding their confidence from the Tory administration in 

 embryo, but also in denouncing and openly protesting against their 

 return to power. 



But we are to wait and see what the Tories mean to do for us. We 

 are to wait to see whether a twice-convicted pickpocket with fingers 

 outstretched, does not mean to present us with an handkerchief, in- 

 stead of abstracting one from us ; we are to pause till a confirmed 

 hectic transforms itself into the bloom of health,and eschew tonics in. 

 the meanwhile ; we are to invite the wolf at the door, even though 

 he do not come disguised in sheep's clothing, to take a seat in our 

 open Cabinet, and defer tilHhe next morning, when we are awake 

 if we should ever chance to do so the enquiry as to whether he 

 be really a wolf or no ? 



No no old birds are not to be caught with chaff, particularly 

 with chaff of this description. Neither can we hope to catch an old 

 bird like the Duke, by sprinkling, after he has hopped into office, 

 salt upon his tail. We must give him pepper ! 



REFORM IN A LARGE MEASURE. Cambridge is minus a wonder 

 this month we don't mean that Gloucester is not as near as ever, but 

 certainly Buckingham appears to have approximated marvellously. 

 Eye-kill Law, Esq. of the first-mentioned place has been gathered to 

 his fathers at the somewhat premature age of forty-four. We fear 

 the poor gentleman has martyrized himself to a too rigid sense of 

 duty j for during the last seven years of his sublunary existence he 



