men that accept office under the Crown ; but this
time the ap- date. V . .,
vernment does not comprise a sufficient number of men represent- There are sOme, however, which offer at least exceptional ing the business classes of the country would do well to compare vicissitudes. Northampton is not asked to reelect Mr. Vernon it with previous Cabinets in that respect. The simple fact that Smith, since he has been appointed to recruit the Ministerial it includes Richard Cobden would alone mark a distinction—Mr. numbers in the House of Lords, with Sir Benjamin Hall, who Cobden having stood in a great degree aloof from ordin- cannot be reelected for Marylebone ; and in these eases there ap- ary party politics, yet being known to hold thoroughly Radical • pears to be a less certain doom ler any intruding candidates. opinions, and at the same time having virtually swayed the whole Marylebone in particular, is so expensive a Liberal eonstituelley business community at a period of most important legislation. that it is difficult to find the man.vihaeombines Radicalism and In the single person of Richard Cobden, therefore, business Eng- wealth in proportions sufficient to satisfy it ; for Paddington is land is represented in a far greater degree than it has been by exacting, and the New Road will in no degree abate its the Herrieses and Strutts who have stood for the same duty in claims.
previous Cabinets. Again, with reference to the Radical test, the present Cabinet, by its unusual number of Commoners, and Both Houses have met this week for little more than formal by including of men like Milner Gibson and Richard Cobden, business,—the Lords to expedite private business, the Commons goes beyond the Aberdeen Cabinet, which was thought to have to issue the new writs. .
taken a decided step in admitting the one philosophical but titled At the hasty sitting on Wednesday, Mr. William Owen Stan- Radical, Sir William Molesworth. . ley brought before the House a Breach of Privilege. He had
The Addresses of the several candidates have made no impor- discovered, hidden in the conspicuous columns of some country teat disclosures to interest the electors, yet they have excited no paper, a statement by Mr. Dennis, a Northampton lawyer, that small attention. The expression employed by Lord John Rue- Mr. Gilpin had received two letters from gentlemen of the Tory sell in alluding to the amendment of the laws regulating the re- party, offering him a pecuniary consideration for his vote in the presentation of the people in Parliament has been construed to House. Mr. Blaekburn retaliated, by "drawing attention" to imply that the consideration of that question will not be de- a breach of privilege committed by the same Mr. Dennis, in ferred. The most remarkable of the addresses, however, is one disclosing her Majesty's intention to confer a peerage upon Mr. that is principally animated by a sense of personal responsibility Vernon Smith ; Mr. Blackburn, it would seem, holding that the —it is Mr. Gladstone's address to the peculiar constituency of disclaim of her Majesty's intentions on the Whig side, is as Oxford through his friend the Provost of Oriel. It recapitulates grave an offence as proposing on the Tory side to buy the votes the history of his political proceedings during the late Ministe- of a Member of the House of Commons ! Mr. Daneombe die- rial crisis, in order to show that he has been thoroughly con- covered that the person to be called to account was not Mr. sistent in supporting the late Ministers while he believed that Gilpin, or Mr. Dennis, or the country reporter, but the publisher to do so was to serve the interests of the country, and in accept- of the nines,' in which Mr. Stanley had read the report of the ing office with the statesmen who have overthrown the late Min- speech. On this presentment of the ease, Colonel Dunne isters as soon as he perceives that his cooperation may assist in feelingly objected to taking notice of statements in newspapers, establishing a strong Government and promoting good measures. the Times having accused him of voting against the Ecclesias- The appendix election offers a remarkable-contrast to the main tical Titles Bill ; when he, in point of fact, had forgotten how movement in the conduct of what is now the Opposition. Libe- he voted, Mr. Duncombe, however, appears to have succeeded rat expenditure of money, boundless activity, and representations in his wicked wish that the House of Commons should grapple of earnest intention, which were known to be in a certain degree -with the publisher of the Times ; and Mr. Owen Stanley is to
sincere, procured Lord Derby the support of a larger minority renew attention to the subject "at the proper moment." The
than that which he had headed in the previous Parliament ; but House of Commons has a strange alacrity in seeking interviews
it was still a minority. He has had his trial, and his colleagues with Mr. Harrison. . : • 7-t - have so managed matters in the House of Commons that the trial V•
ended in total failure. The fact is seen in the reelections. It is The diplomatic juncture on the continent is far more important only in some extreme cases that there is any note of resistanee. -than the military. Whatever may be the errors in the conflict- The Conservatives hardly care to enter an appearance. If there V ing statements that have been put forward respecting the pro- has been some talk of an opposition to Lord John Russell, it has sals made by Prussia it now seems to be admitted that after all been rather in the hope of making mischief' as between Lord Prussia has come forward to interposa. and to suggest terms for John and his Premier than of attaining any real increase lof -the settlement of Peace between France and Austria. The latest strength for the Conservative •party. But the enterprise appears report of the terms is, that the fortresses of the Mincio should be Nuys OP THE WEEK— A Seat for Sale, by a Reformed to be all initio-hopeless, and some time must elapse,—Ministers Proceedings in Parliament 654 The Put and Futwe Government themselves must make some striking mistakes, before there will The Elections 655 of I Sidneyerbert and Army Reform. taly 666 gbleoomilthey opportunities for mischief-making which are now so
Junius 1 668 The place in which there really appears to be the greatest hope Ireland 659 Obsolete and Current Meanings of damaging the Ministerial party is Oxford University—Mr.
Foreign and Colonial 6.59 Confidences Words 670 Gladstone's " inconsistencies " rendering him obnoxious to. the
Miscellaneous 660 Books about Drill 670 moral censure of the election-agent class ! At all events, the
Money Market 662 Literary News 672 cant about them' raises hopes amongst the Conservatives that Useful Arts, Fashion, Trade, &c.. 662 THEATRES 672 they may reduce his majority to a minority. His vigorous and.
The Ministerial Reillections 663 Births, Marriages, and Deaths 673 candid letter has done much to discourage such hopes ; neverthe- Current 673 -less, in the Marquis of Chandos, chairman of a great railway Diplomacy 661 Advertisements 673-676 V company, a Working statesman in the business community of NEWS OF THE WEEK. ored" of ideal Conservatisin, the -party has.fonnd a candidate
who could oppose Mr:Gladstone with the largest show of fin- .
