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THE ELECTORAL CAMPAP7N.

PARLIAMENT has now but a week to live,
as the fatal day approaches the prospects of the'.

era are perceptibly brightening. Constituencies and
candidates are coming to close quarters. Respect-
able old clap-traps which in the Paunourrow
days carried many a Conservative and many •
Liberal through the electoral campaign, have lost
their charm. The Constitutionalists are driven to
invent new bugbears, which frighten nobody of
mature age or sound intellect, and a certain class
of Liberals of the old time who used to talk
of " settling" reform, and who settled it for many
years by a gentle process of suffocation, are now
obliged to open their mouths • little wider, sad to
snake their promises and pledgee a little more dis-
tinct. One has only to glance at the addresses
and the speeches of Tory candidates to measure
the distance between the old era and the new one.
All the conquests of the Liberal cause, so painfully
and slowly achieved, are now not only acknow-
ledged by those who always opposed them, but
accepted and adopted by honest Tories as their
own.

Ministers who have obtained or held office
under false colours are naturally indignant
that Mr. GLADSTONE should have caused them
so zru-11 inconvenience by raising in a most
explicit and peremptory form a crucial
question of political justice which had
%lumbered for thirty years. But for this
Irish Church difficulty Mr. DISRAELI might have
led his followers to easy victory under ban-
ners of doubtful device, which would have rallied
a Lost of WM4l'llB(4' deserters from the opposite
camp. Indeed it would probably be an injustice to
him to doul t that Le would do so even now, did
time purmit him to teach his awkward squad the
new tactics,. But this is no longer possible. Ile
1110( baul no choice but to summon all the forces of
ignorance, prejudice, and bigotry to the rescue; and
the Irish question cuts him off from all pant-
Laity of escape. On all other points of
policy vague professions might suffice ; but oil
this the reunited party that accepts Mr. Gust
STONE for its leader is an far apart from the party
that shrinks from owning Mr. DISRAELI as its
thief as the Reformers from the Tories in 1532.
It may be remarked that very few candidates are

presenting themselves under the trinuner's disguise
of Liberal-Conservative% and it may be safely
conjectured that candidates who have not the
courage of their convictions on one side or the other
will stand a poor chance at the poll. The general
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canvass which is all but concluded has nhosin that
if the majority of the candidates are of the old
order there in enough of now material in the const i-
tuencien to make the future Parliament an inntru ruent
of legislation with a new handle and a now blade.
lien who sat in the last House of Commons will
scarcely recognise themselves when they take their
seats in the next. Nur, whatever may be the
quantity, in the quality of the candidates who are
likely to take their ants for the first time
in the new House, insignificant. There will be