103 THE SESSION -OF 1836. 



triumphantly brought back to Downing Street on the shoulders of the 

 people, as in April 1835. Their exclusion from office will be 

 permanent. 



Let us not be here misunderstood. Let it not for a moment be 

 supposed that we have the slightest idea that a Tory Ministry can ever 

 again preside over the destinies of this country. That is beyond the 

 limits of possibility. We must have a liberal Ministry, that's certain ; 

 but not the liberals which constituted the Ministry of Lord Melbourne. 

 In them the nation have lost all confidence. We must have a Cabinet 

 constructed not only on principles of the broadest liberality, but we 

 must have some guarantee that these principles shall be carried into 

 effect. The people of this country will no longer submit to be cheated 

 out of the benefits furnished them by the Reform Bill ; those benefits 

 they will have equally in despite of faint-hearted Ministers and Tory 

 Peers. 



Whether Lord Melbourne's Administration will live to see another 

 meeting of Parliament is, as we have just hinted, a matter of much 

 doubt. If it should, he may rely on it that they will not calmly suffer 

 a repetition of the policy he has thought fit to pursue during the session 

 about to close. 



SONNET. 



THAT these strange thoughts could be 

 Quench'd or realized ! this pain, this sickness, 

 Cease withdraw from my lone heart's misery. 

 But the world is cold 'tis called a weakness 

 Thus long to suffer and complain. 



1 still must pine in hopeless sadness, 

 Like lonely wife who mourns in vain 

 Her warrior lord in battle slain* 



that I but once again might steal 



Th' animating hopes of youth's bright dream ! 

 Joy hath from me stray'd I chance might feel 

 Something of peace ere yet life's stream 



1 pass as one whose lot on earth, though graven 

 With care and grief, seeks joy in heaven ! 



E. W. G. 



