The Westminster Liberal Committee have asked Mr. John Stuart Mill
to stand for that borough at the next election, and Mr. Mill has replied that he would not refuse to sit if chosen by
the electors, but that it is neither consistent with his principles to spend any money on the election, nor with his general position to undertake the constituency% local business in the House. "My only object in Parliament," he says, "would be to promote my. opinions. What these are on nearly all the political .onestions in which the public feel any interest is before the world, and until I am convinced they are wrong, these, and no others, are the opinions which I must act on." IIe urges them, however, to select several members from amongst whom to- choose, naming Sir John Romilly awl Mr. Chadwick, in addition to the Honourable Lyulph Stanley (second son . of Lord Stanley of Alderley), who had been already selected for consideration by .the Committee. Mr. Mill's fitness for Parliament we have dis- -.cussed elsewhere. We may add here that we should rejoice in his election, if it were only that in him the House would gain an -authoritative expositor of that large science of social and political economy which has been brought into needless discredit in Parliament by those who offer pseudo-economical principles as an excuse for shabby foreign policy and shabbier ethics.
