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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21.

Ir would be ungrateful to overlook the fact that
the Elections have deprived the Liberal party of
some men whose long services, high personal she-
racter, special attainments, powers of commands.
parliamentary attention, and devotion to the
popular cause will render their absence from the
new Parliament a loss to the friends with whom
they had so faithfully. and usefully laboured. &EN'
few of them will, it is yet to be lioped, regain, on
petition, the seats of which they haw been deprived
—but others of them can only, it is clear,
re-enter the House of Commons by the fa.
your of other constituencies than those whose
public spirit has failed them on the pre-
sent occasion. As legislation—like all other grave
pursuits—is a business to the due performance and
transaction of which men arc not born ready made,
so in an) of the gentlemen whom we are about to
mention, boroughs in which vacancies may occur may
find representatives of experience, of character, and
of popular qualifications.
Funniest amongst these losses may be placed Mr.
BERNAL. There arc few old members on either aide
of the new house who will not miss the late Chairman
of the Ways and Means ; so intelligent, so courteous,
so accessible; so ready with information on matters
of detail, so constant in his attendance, and
so businesslike while presiding over committees
of the whole house. Yet there was nothing servile,
nothing merely plausible, nothing showy about Mr.
Belts iCs suavity ; in his hands the house was in
the hands of a thorough gentleman, careful of its
character, its honour, and its dignity ; who knew
everything relating to its proceedings; and who
nnoetentatioualv. had done much to improve thin;
proceedings, and to adapt its manner of transacting
private business to the vast and various increase
that would otherwise have overrun Parliament. Mr.
BKRMAL was a fine specimen of thorough liberality
of political opinions, and complete independence of
mere cliquerie, accompanied by cultivated under-
standing, good taste, and courteous manners. He
had become, too, part and parcel of the home ; and
on its re-assembling the question will instinctively
arise to many tongues, when advice is wanted or
information is sought, " Where is BERNAL r Ro-
chester may well blush for his exclusion; the lone
Is public ; but the disgrace is local.
The absence of Mr. BEILMAL in the next Parliament
will, moreover, be the more marked, seeing that
Lancaster also has excluded Mr. GREENE, who was
Bir RUBKIRT Pe/LL's Chairman of Ways and Means.
Two men of great parliamentary experience in the
details of its business are what the House of
Commons can ill abed to loss, when led by a raw
and inexperienced minister, without a majority.
The loss will, however, tend to render the re-
election of Mr. Saaw LUSTRE to the apeakership a
po_litical necessity; and the probability is that Mr.
WILSON PATlRletirrollaiOOS to be Chairman of
Ways and Means • be adopted and promoted by •
government in which be also has no great confidence.
Witsos Perrin is, no doubt, a sensible busi-
nesslike man; and will fill the chair creditably ;
bat he is far inferior in every respect to Mr. BRILNAL,
and not equal in any to Mr. Gazes&
Next to the lose of Mr. BKILYAL we would
place the exclusion of Mr. Hommas and Sir
EDWARD BUXTON; and to them we might appro-
priately add, in a house where ecclesiastical
Fahrmers will be few, Mr. H•anc.terts. It is
ROW MIN SWIM years ago since Mr. Houma;
entered Iratilemest a young and active Whig of
he Maher& need; and for years he laboured
heed Y the lab el whiggery. But he,
tees hind k thy bones r and long ago Mr.
Bennitan amennea its trammels and its Ohms's,
es he had she nand its prate and seeds.
rents Qualqing lionedfeziglaga=sanielee.
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edges end wishes derby the h See ot peen, in
tolghtb• mem et WhWery.
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he bed bought the Nide le the ask sad
lonertele sir church sad spiesepl womb t
lobes and intimidation, and esereglisn at
Oseheressedi withdrawn Mr. Homan, hr a
masers it /sat,
his
the scene of his lama
le of Ids later efforts he received math cor-
dial est 've (because practical, intelligent, and
inilinesd) assistance from Sir EDWARD Banal+ and
Mr. HARDCAITLR both of whom the
Rams have rejected. But that is not the may ,sr
perhaps the 6ie, ground on which the low ef Bir
EDWARD BUXTON is to be regretted. Sir EDWARD
did more than represent South Esser; he
eapre-
seated a large class of moral sentiment, of hamtty,
and of philanthropy, useful in the Hoofs at Com-
mons as • corrective to the hard, material, coarse
spirit which excludes the feelings, and almost the
virtues, of life fain its philosophy.
The next Parliament will be the first in modern
time in which the heir apparent of the liberal
Hones of Forams" has not led a seat; and many
a man in the Liberal ranks Gould have been more
easily spared thin the present Lord Bezzooron.
For though, in general politics, very apt to adhere
too rigidly to Lord Joint itusegu., Lord ExaMOTON
had a specialty; and it was @eatery reform. This
came--the canes of the poor and the helpless--bad
almost become a paw" certainly an enthu-
siasm with Lord Reautoroit. In his seal
for health and cleanliness even his hereditary
whiggery cooled; and fait there was no labour or
trouble he would not undergo. There are few who have
Lord Esameron's ardour in this respect; let us hops,
then, that a petition will macre him to the House.
And whilst on Lords, let us pay • passing tribute
of regret to Lord Dtrmeares absence; for he too, and
even in a higher and better degree, rose above the
prejudices of his order; and two nocaless of his
pun parliamentary carete.gave protege of Mill greater
future usefulness. It Is to Lord DUNCAN that
the country owes seta reform in the composition
of the Bards of Weeds and Works, and in the
administration and sissernest of the Crown pro-
party, it bee yet set j—behin also we are indebted
repeal of Pat') skiable tax on light.
There is too large a 'opacity fl or public bovines',
combined with a thorough liberal of opinions, in
Lord DUNCAN, flat his not to be missed In the new
House of Commas.
Why Oldham 'humid have prieetei Mr. W.J.Fox
peaks people eke Uwe aid the advantage of
living in Oldham; sneer, indeed, that the very
name (though smenimpemiedi by the genius) of
County, has irradiant, ihesinetkne kr the etastitu-
eney, or that Oldham Ws earyweit he being
maestri% end arkissa, end mrsintal. Bet so it
is i Okihen Wderived the Mere of C--e of
the Aim= awl searstivet it set always exca-
vate, thought et Mr. Irrix, end lam rdwred to his
great exertions es behalf of ender dandies, the
vain and illusory premises sad relbedese et that
nondescript pad al enimel—a
Mt. ANSTLT, tee (what/derwhiz:ay, sad in
spite of the injustice be wee ever If), isa
real am. For Mr. ANITIT WY a of forlorn
hopes; and though sometimes rah sod boisterous,
be was full of courage and gallantry, and fuller still
of learning and ability. Mr. ANaTeT ran the
whole gamut of politics; nothing was too large or
too small for his seal. ro him were consigned all
the motions for which other people had neither the
taste nor the ability, neither the industry nor the
courage.
The Whip have to mourn the defeats of Sir Jolts
Noritte and Sir WILLIAM fiorraviti.t. But in
the absence from Parliament of the former, the best
interests of the public, and the purity and cha-
racter of justice, will
_gain. And it might
be well, now that the MASTER of the ROLLS
is absent and the Rotation could have no personal
bearing, for the legislature to perpetuate the emelt
Mon of that great functionary. Though of late op-
Caldby official whiggery, Sir W. lloneatme
larger sympathies ; and the absence of his large
and accurate acquaintance with Ireland will be Mt
is the new Howie of Coollllooll.