The Greenwich electors have sent another gentleman of the Jewish
persuasion to keep Baron Rothschild company in the Lobby of the House of Commons. The claims or no-claims of Mr. Salomons and Mr. Wire seemed so equally balanced, that little in- terest was taken in their contest at Greenwich. But an opinion was expressed, that the constituency is of sufficient importance to entitle it to look for representatives of higher mark than either. In the other Metropolitan constituencies, too, a notion iapperuwto be gaining ground, that the quality of their aggregate represen- tatives is not very high, and is, if anything, deteriorating. The justice of such a notion can scarcely be denied4,yet it may be doubted whether this conviction will lead to any action on the part of the Metropolitan constituents to obtain a better class of representatives. In most cases, constituencies, like ladies,. will wait to be wooed. The men best qualified for the work of legis- lation are too apt to imagine that it is dignified to wait till they be asked to come forward. This is a mischievous error, for it leaves the field open to inferior men. Mr. Roebuck and Colonel Thompson have not lowered themselves by their frank avowals of a wish to get into Parliament ; and men like Mr. O'Connor and Mr. George Thompson—to say nothing of some leading politicians of the official class—are indebted for their seats solely to the uzi- relaxing industry with which they have obtruded their claims upon public notice.
