The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-25 00:00:00

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safer for a tremendous parliamentary cannon ,
the British tax-payer will have no cause to oom-
pisin, and the Pumas may boast that he has
discovered a new " cheap defence of nations."

Some electors of Westminster, who certainly ,
cannot be said to nodemste the claims of that con-
stituency, have asked Mr. Joint Sramix Wu to
allow himself to be nominated as their represents-
tive in the next Parliament. Nothing could be
more creditable to • body of electors than the
aspiration to be represented by the greatest English
scientific politician of our age. It has generally
been considered the privilege of the landed arielo-
army, as patrons of small boroughs, to introduce
into Parliament men of eminent political
qualification, who may be unfitted by habit
or disposition to encounter the turmoil of
contested elections. It may be that offers of
such service to their country have been made
to Mr. Mtm. by discerning and public-spirited
Peers ; but if so, the secret has been well
kept. It would be remarkable if an honour
which our noble and honourable masters have
missed should fall to a popular, to a metropolitan,

constituency.
Mr. Miir., in the letter we published on
Thursday, consents to represent Westminster if
returned, and treats the proposition to elect him
as a signal honour, though he cannot offer him-
self as a candidate. We do not know what are
the chances of Mr. Max.'s election ; we believe
that it is intended to test the opinion of
the constituency in some way before pro-
posing him at the hustings. But if it
were tolerably certain that he would have a seat in
the next Parliament, the pleasure of the prospect
would have its drawbacks. Is it certain that the
House of Commons is the best place for one
whose achievements are those of • great thinker I
What place can such • man make for himself in
that overgrown club f What is thought—is it not
something of* disease? Have not our classicalautho-
Titles decided that it enfeebles resolution and em-
Unease action ? Is the House of Lord Pmair.asrow
more tolerant of thought than the House of Lord
Norm, which fled when BURKE rose, rather than
listen to reason, though recommended by all the
graces of oratory Then, further, although Mr.
Mum could not be expected to attend every petty
division, be must spend much time in Parliament
doing work which third rate members could do as
well as he, and we should gateswer books and fewer
essays, to our great loss,
that of our children.
Then, remembering the kind of speeches which oc-
cupy so large is portion of the time of Parliament,
remembering, too, the arts by which the machine
is kept moving, the tricks, the equivocations, the
frivolity of the leaders and managers of the House,
we can imagine what would be the position of a
man of severe habits and just tastes compelled to
witness the exhibition night after night. We
need not name names ; almost every depart-
mental statement in Committee of Supply, almost
any answer to a plain question will serve as an
instance. Mr. MILL, listening to these things,
would feel an embarrassment something like that
of a bishop at a party when Madlle. Tamales begins
to sing her little gaillard songs. All this, however,
is matter for his consideration rather than for ours.
He can best judge whether he is likely to be
happy and useful in the House of Commons, and
if he wishes to enter Parliament we can wish for
the electors of Westminster no greater honour
than that of returning him.