etter pleased as it is.' No
great party should do things by halves and doubtingly: if the
leaders thought the case was so grave as to call for the
interference of the House, and that they were justified in taking
this matter into their own hands, they ought to have brought down
all their forces, and have given their vote all the authority it
would derive from an imposing majority. No maxim is more clearly
understood than that any party having generally a large majority,
and only carrying some particular question by a very small one,
suffers something like a defeat, because it implies that they
have not the concurrence on such question of many of their usual
supporters. This was, therefore, a false move one way or the
other. The Government, however, have no doubt of carrying their
point by as large a majority as they ever can have.

[Page Head: DEFECTION OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.]

They are in a great rage, and in no small dismay at the same
time, at the conduct of the 'Morning Chronicle,' which has turned
half against them in a most extraordinary manner, that is, it is
urging the Radicals to seize this opportunity of compelling the
Government to go their lengths, and to make such compliance the
condition of their support. Government are so indignant that they
want to break off with the 'Chronicle' altogether; but then they
will be left in the awkward predicament of having no morning
paper whatever in their service. What nettles them the more is,
that they made the 'Chronicle' what it is, and raised it by their
exertions from the lowest ebb to its present very good
circulation. Just before Peel's hundred days it was for sale, and
had then fallen to about a thousand a day. Easthope was persuaded
by Ellice to buy it, which he did for L15,000 or L20,000. The
Whigs set to work, and Hobhouse, Normanby, Poulett Thomson, Le
Marchant, and several others, wrote day after day a succession of
good articles which soon renovated the paper and set it on its
legs. The circulation increased daily till it got up to three
thousand, and now it has reached six thousand. Easthope makes a
clear L10,000 a year by the speculation; but now, seeing (or
thinking he sees) greater advantages to be got by floating down
the Radical stream than by assisting in the defence of this
Government, he forgets past favours and connexion, and is ready
to abandon them to their fate. It is rather an ominous sign and
marks strongly their falling estimation. Th