The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-04 00:00:00

ONE PENNY.

THE PEERAGE ♦ND THE HOUSEHOLDEW
PARLIAYZNT.

The returns to the Reformed Parliament Mast
have effectually dispelled the apprehemionS of
those who feared the unchecked rule of the
may. The "great governing families "dec.
lost Mk, if any, of the influenes which they
parented in the house elected under the more
restricted franchise. Some noble houses have
Maned losses, but these have been comderbalsesoed
by the victories' of others. The house which as
suffered most severely is that of Cavendish. .In
the lest Filament _there wore the Marquis of
Hartington for North Lancashire, Lord F.' C.
Cavendish for the North-West Biding. Lord B.
Cavendish for East Sussex, and Lord George
Cavendish for North Derbyshire. The four have
been reduosd to two; and the Marquis of Harting-
ton and his brother, Lord Edward, are for the time
excluded. The Duke of Abereorn has dill the satis-
faction of seerog two sons and a brother in
the House of Commons, the defeat of Lord
C. J. Hamilton in Londonderry having been
balanced by the election of his younger
brother for Middlesex. The family of the
• nis of Ailesb,ury is still by two
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members of the noble house of Russell—Mr.
Hastings in Bedfordshire, and Mr. Arthur at
Tavistoek; while Lord Amberloy, who went from
Nottingham to South Devon, has lost his egat-
Lord 's two sons are still in the House,
Captain elanley, the younger, now sitting for
North lire e. The eldest son of the Date of
Duodena has been defeated in Midlothian; but
his younger brother, lard Henry Scott, was more
fortunate. He now sits for South Hants, pis
former constituency, the county of Peebles, having
been united to that of Selkirk. The two members
of the Cowper family are still in the House—the
Right Hon. William Francis for South Hants,
and the Hon. Henry Cowper for Hertfordshire..
The Earl of Loesdale, now 81 years of afre,
still sees four representatives of- Lowther Castle
in the House of Commons. These are Colonel
',Wait; *ix Preemptive to the title, who sits
for West Ctunberland Mr. William Lowthßes
M.P. for Westmoreland, Mr. James Lowther, the
ecnservative member for the Oity of York, and
Mr. Cavendish Beatinck, the elect of the burgesses
of Whitehaven. There are again four Egerton'
who will invariably vote with the conservatives,
the Hon. Algernon Fulke, for South-east Lam-
shire ; Mr. Edward Christopher, for East
Cheshire ; Sir Philip de Mapes Grey, for West
Cheshire ; and the lion. Wilbraham, for Mid-
Cheshire. For onco, however, there is a liberal
member in the house bearing the name of
Egerton. He has been sent, in company with the
Hon. H. Strutt, from the new division of East
Derbyshire. Lords John and George Manners, for
North Leicester and Cambridgeshire respec-
tively, continue to remind us that the Duke of
Rutland has two brothers in the House of Com-
mons. The Leveson-(dowers have held their own
—Lord Ronald in Sutherlandshire, and the Hon.
Edward Frederick at Bodmin. So also has the
house of Tredegar, two members of the family of
Morgan having again been returned for the coun-
ties of Brecknock and Monmouth. Colonel
Poulett Somerset warn successful in Monmouth-
shire, while Colonel E. A. Somerset, after a twelve
months' tenure of his seat, has been ejected from
West Gloucestershire. The Grosvenor family is
still represented by three members—Earl Gros-
venor at Chester, Lord Richard in Flintehire, and
the Hon. Robert Wellesley in Westminster. The
eldest son of Earl Fitzwilliam continues to re-
present the southern division of the West Riding,
and the Hon. C. W. Pitzwilliesn again sits for
Melton. The Hon. Charles Howard has come in
once more for East Cumberland, while Lord
Edward has been defeated at Preston. The Earl
of Enniskillen has the satisfaction of seeing his
second son again the representative of Fermanagh,
while in Enniskillen his third son has given place
to Lord Crichton, eldest son of the Earl of Erne..
Two brothers of the Duke of Newcastle, who
sat in the last parliament, Lord E. P. Clinton for
North Node, and Lord Arthur for Newark, :did
not offer themselves for re-election. Two sons of
Lord Leconfield are again in the House—the lion.
Henry Wyndham for West Sussex, and the Hon.
Percy Scewen for West Cumberland. Of the
members of the Feversham family, Admiral Dun-
combe abandoned the East Riding to stand for
Leeds, where he was defeated, and Colonel Dun-
comb. has been re-elected for the North Riding.
The two brothers of the Duke of Richmond, Lord
Henry Lennox at Chichester, and Lord George at
Lymington, have retained their seats after con-
tests. Lord Mayo has left Cockermouth, but a
number of the family of Bourke has come iu
for King's Lynn. A division of Kent has remained
faithful to Lord Holmesdale, Tipperary to the
Hon. Captain White, Cavan County to the Hon.
Hugh Anuesley, Argyllshire to the Marquis of
Lorne, South Wilts to Lord H. F. Thynue, North
Shropshire to Lord Newport, West Suffolk .
Lord Augustus Hervey, the county of Galway to
Viscount Burke, Kilkenny County to the lion.
L. F. Agar-Ellis, Dorset to the Hon. W. H. Port-
man, South Shropshire to General Percy Herbert,
the two divisions of Northumberland to a Percy
and a Liddell, and a division of Essex to Lord
Eustace Cecil. Other counties return members of
the houses of Strafford, Walsingham, Wempos,
Buller, Fitzgerald, Gainsborough Hardwieke,
Headfort, Henzulter, Howe, Lump, King, O'Neill,
Onuathwait.e, Downshire, and Lyttelton.
The members of noble houses who sit for
boroughs are considerably fewer in number.
Amongst them, exclusive of those already men-
tioned, are Mr. Berkeley for Bristol, Mr. Villiers
for Wolverhampton, Colonel Crichton-Stuart for
Cardiff, Lord Pelham for Lewes, Lord Bury for
Berwick, Mr. Denman for Tiverton, Mr. Hanbury-
Treaty for the Montgomery boroughs, Captain
Vivian for Truro, Mr. Arthur Kinnard for Perth,
Mr. Cadogan for Cricklade, Mr. Tollemache for
Grantham, Lord Sandon for Liverpool. Colonel
Edwardes for Haverfordwest, and Lord St. Law-
rence for Galway. Mr. Bathurst retains his seat
at Cirencester, Captain Cariugtou at Wycombe,
Mr. Dudley Fortesene at Andover, Sir George
Grey at Morpeth, Mr. Bouverie at Kilmarnock.
Lord John Hay at Ripon, General Forester at
Wenlock, and Major Knox at Dungannon. Lord
Courtenay, who in the last parliament sat for
Exeter, now represents East Devon. Altogether
the ranks of the aristocracy have suffered little or
no diminution from the exercise of the franchise
by the householders, the W. copyholders and
leaseholders, and the 12/. voters in the English
counties.—Daily News.

TEE DUBLIN ELLTTION.—It is stated in Dublin
that one of the lately chosen members for the county of
Meath will retire, st en early opportunity. in favour of Sir
Dominic Carrigan ; and that the learned baromit will be
elected to MI the so seeded without mg/ eV=
tion. The recently zomabers for the county NIMb
are Mr. Corbally and Mr. Mayo . It is to the former of
these gentlemen. we the abovemiestiosed
rumour applies—Brifiat !blies! Amnia:.
NATIONAL REFORM UNION.—The executive of
the union met cm Tuesday evesisig_last. ..st th• men.
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chair. Atter the of the weal hudisees the
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