The following paragraphs appeared in the Times of Tuesday, in
the order in which we give them—
The following list of 'anticipated English County Members has been banded about in the highest quarters. It is calculated to the 26th of October, and very nearly. if not
absolutely, correct : 90 ; Radicals, 5; Tories, 25; Warners. 15. !I! il;isterial- majority. 54. Scotland will, it is believed, furnish 43 Whigs, 2 Radicals. S Tories; being a majority for Ministers of 33. Of Ireland no estimate can yet be made; and the English boroughs are also uncertain, thought very few of them will retina, Tories, and still fewer Waverers.—Glasyme Chronicle.
The number of Conservatives (about a third of them at least may hi, considered as • Ministerialists) that will be chosen into the New Parliament is estimated at 159; the Ministerial list gives only 136. The extreme Radical members will be Very few ; the Independent Reformers very many. For all purposes of " the Bill" the Ministers will have an overwhelming majority—the greatest, perhaps, that any Minister ever en- joyed.—Morning Paper.
They had appeared, verbatim, the first in the Spectator of November 3, and the second in the Spectator of November 17. We do not notice their appropriation from any importance we attach to the para- graphs in themselves, which the " Glasgow Chronicle" and the " Morn- ing Paper" may take and welcome, but to illustrate the omniumgatherum mode in which the great Daily Journals, for whose especial conserva- tion the Newspaper-tax is meant and intended, are made up. We know the excuse of the Times—they were cut from the Globe of the previous evening. But think of the Leading Journal cutting from the Globe, or any ether paper, a bit of news only seventeen days old!
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