The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-25 00:00:00

STATISTICS OP THE NEW HOUSE.

(Frees the Leifer.)

Speculation ea to the strength of parties in the
sew bowls has a nazisl interest, inaswath es there I. ao
insinediste likelihood dry dirks whir word test the
err of the Elmer ea Me newbwe et the elpwides. Thom
VS be no ado* et menhir le Kr. Ilvelyn Daiwa se
/pester, wed throb no peloaldllep Mod Mr. Diereeli will
pdeipitato say Ewe Ilooly le obew hew wiry small is the
' party of genders who Mew Ids leadership. Even
Lard John, although his ledepeadent position gime him •
vantage ground, is net rely to Meek with the government
too soon; nor will Mr. Obblowa with all his reedinea to
set with a misery, lend Ye the tabby that reduced Poore
section which roar bra gent ono belt Its rote to sap-
ply tellers for the ewt. Dagelved, dowdore, al the pro.-
pacts of that Met of Poressostery minferea•—• dirks
lit--we doll took ern a aratal wirer at adios elbow=
end bedew tadoteddeed
She Welded adeenetlelona calculate, we ewlennaed,
ape a swjeelly et Iti—owl venom as se avenge Intimate
etas peebetio wojerldw et Paiweedee st urea que-
rns, it le a prettyfrir webonleg. Counded se liberals all
who tarpon an interim at the tenneldre nod are serially
Memel& to strum ter secirdeedtel sad elvil—the
demi* of the Dila potty in the home in Mt This
Seri ie sot arrived at by putting son down as liberals
merely became they have ore beta arid KS or because
they cell therebref Eberle whitest erelfying any refire
they will morel ; it is bred ea trade declaration.
Sem their own lips on the hustings, or in their written
afiressea, when a statement one way or the other
re likely Se sled the poll. We have also sa-
lvia has emoting a Liberals any townhers, how-
ever literal is ther nicest wormier who voted generally
with the Corerveres is the late Parliament Nor has •
past sapped et Loed Palmerston on the China quake, nor
•rendsed greed moppet to his ministry, induced es to
hoot the matted distinction between men ready to vote for
.Err *lithe franchise end for the further applicatios of
del ant religions tarty, and Min unwilling through
her ef the deinsersey" to give into their
heads sty extended power. The Liberal party
thia—mensbarg it frem Lord Palmerston to llfr-
Townsend, Gem Led John Itumell to Mr. Roebuck—num-
ben MN. The nest larks is, how are the party united ?
Are tree sty retort rose deo mire to acknowledge Pal-
omar ? Are there bgidald. Orkentota, and republicans
*air with davit, of enere, but with three distinct
elder, spier the Napoleon of English politics?
Reek of the three Reach parties has its counter-
pad in the house. There is Lord John Rimer
in exile, the legitimist chief of the historic end
oaks.' whisperty, Tree b Sir Jame. Graham, who
sets Orlesnina to the very life, now appealing to his old
Whig !moulage., now calling the .Radicas his friend.. And
them is Mr. Roebuck representing tau RePuldiars, who ob-
ject with equal acrimony to the reigning monarch and to the
two pretenders. Sir Janne Graham's section cocain. mainly
of himself, for we cannot calculate on at 7 member of the
house as a Oraharte ; Mr. Sidney ,Herbert will, it
is said, shortly join the ministry, und Mr. Glad-
atone will be, in the language of the orclawne, a chef
fretalue of the opposition. Mr. Roebuck represents
a section that may number eight. He represents
a party of radicals who chafe at the perpetual leadership of
men of familF, and who have a Axed idea that all men who
had grandfathers must be aristocratic and used up. In this
section, to swell it up to eight, we most count the pesos
party, not yet extinct--for we have Mr. Henry NSW (is it
the pilgrim who reins indeed his own heed weeding to

the old swaps llft pleasant penitential travelliag, went to
Peterdwas to tell Hleholas not to be naughty 1), and Mr.
Charles Gilpin, who with true English spirit anti-
cipated (in • pamphlet published et his shop and
ease read by Palmerston to a laughing home) bow
the, peat French would be dace again when, greatly to their
Ample, we should !arum to receive the corapemation they
mead remorsefully offer after having battered down ov r
ummaisting cities. Putting Ituagollitee, pure whige, ',Ai-
ello, peace men, and Sir Junes Graham altogether m a 'nand
off rebel. in the liberal camp we cannot count them as more
dim twenty, leaving laud Palmerston • faithful farming of
103—more than a majority of the whole house.
The masematives, roughly ;peaking, number 262; but
there aro serious diviaitiee even in this shattered army.
Firstly, there are at the very least forty of the party who have
pledged themselves not to offer • geared opposition to Lord
Palmerston. Among thaw may bs tountet Mr. Mdes, Mr.
Milne. Haskell, Lord Blandford„ and other moderate eon-
smrstive• Some d theme men have area formally '
seceded teen the party (Lord Blandford, iw instance,
who in 1.452 fought mu fiercely at Middlesex against Bernal
Osborne, sow reeneni circulars from Mr. Heyter and not
from Si Williva JoUiffc). Then there are about 20 con-
servatives who me separatkd from the party, not that they
love roommates' kw, bet that they dislike Disraeli more.
They are sepesented by Mr. Bentinck, who led
the weeniea in the late parliament, and by auch
men ae Mr. Kendall, of But Cornwall. Then there
we some of the party who are too liberal to act with Mr.
Dimwit in maintaining an detractive conservatism This,
giving to Mr, Diareeli the mat calling then ed.& coneerva-
lives whit have not openly eroded from the party is w oppo-
eitioa, we Ind that his followers number 200. Were Lord
Palmerston to propose .came extremely liberal extension of
the freachise, or some very owerping reform of the church,
Mr. Berea might lead into the lobby the 262 nommal ma-
servalivea, but not otherwise; but even in that ease the
ganglion would be carried by the liberals by a majority of 100.
Lord Palmerston has thus a majority nip', if not superior,
to Peel's majority of 91, in 1141. But the majority is for
Led l'alimeraton as • Liberal minister. :f he again oppose
-itillestnte of reform, he will (at lend miter this year) find

himself forced to connect his thirty or Ala ty odkial follower.
with the cm:narratives, and even then he will be beaten. He
cannot again enact the division on Leek. King's motion.
The present parlianient is more decidedly liberal than the last.
Take theballet, for instance; it is the opinion of men not
sanguine as to those natters, that there is an actual majority
in the house for the ballot. Wo do not think se; our own
calculations of the members returned do yob bear out this
result. But the ballot rosy nevertheletot obtain majorities,
for while its supporters are pledged to support it, there is no
party pledged to Oppose it. To oppose the ballot is nut even
a sine 'nu nolo of eonservatisni, although objections to the
ballot dwell in many honourable minds on both mides ut the
house. It is raid by political calculator. that, if Lord l'al-
menden adopt en obstructive conservatism on the question of
church•rates or the ballot, he will be defeated in Ibis house,
which his supporters fondly call his own, by at least a majo-
rity of forty.