A new club has just been formed, by a number
of Members of Par- liament belonging to the Independent party. These gentlemen, it would seem, have 6morcaware of the necessity of acting in eoneert. Ilitherto they have seldom pulled together, and therefore have pulled trebly. Whether the establishment of a club will be accompenied by an aban- donment of self-seeking, and lead to that cordial cei•rvisition without which their efforts merely afford sport to the enemy, is more than we can say; and indeed it is more than we expect. Are the individual members of this new society prepared to give up opr !amities of per- sonal glorification, when the good of the cause demauds such a saeri- fire ? Are they willing to move together like well-disciplined troops, some of them as privates and non-commissioned officers ; or are they till determined to be colonels and commanth rs ? If so, their club will be one of disunion ; like some others which we could name, and whose proceedings have lately sickened its of ,■1141i institutions. Aswe give the gentlemen who have formed the new climb credit for the best intentions, so we shall rejoice most heartily it' their efforts arc crowned with success,—if that rope of sand, the Independent party, should be converted into a cable of many coils, firm, compact, and twisted hard together. Put we see no reason to expect that such a miracle will be worked merely through the agency of a dub. The /made and the house are capital—Mr. Alderman WOOD'S late residence in Great George Street, Westminster ; new fitted for the purpose.
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