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THE ELECTIONS-THE LIBERAL PARTY.

I It would be ungrateful to overlook the fact that the elec.
I tions have deprived the Liberal party of some men whose
long services, high personal character, special attainments,
powers of commanding Parliamentary attention, and devo-
tion to the popular cause will render their absence from the
Inew Parliament a loss to the friends with whom th had so
faithfully and usefully laboured. Some few of them will, it
is yet to be hoped, regain, on petition, the seats of which
they have been deprived—but others of them can only, it is
clear, re-enter the House of Commons by the favour of other
1 constituencies than those whose public spirit has failed them
on the present occasion. As legislation—like other grave pur-
-1 suits--is a business to the due performance and transaction of
which men are not born ready made, so in any of the gen-
tlemen whom we areabout to mention, boroughs in which va-
cancies may occur may find representatives of experience, of
character, and of popular qualifications.
Foremost w
oamongst these losses may be placed Mr. Bernal. 1
There are feld Members on either side of the new House
who will not miss the late Chairman of Ways and Means; I
so intelligent, so courteous, so accessible; so ready with
informatian on matters of detail, so constant in his 1
attendance, and so busioe,s-like while presiding over Com-
mittees of the whole House. Yet there was nothing servil-,
nothing merely plausible, nothing showy
about Mr. Bcrnal'i
suavity ; in his hands the House was in the hands of a f
thorough gentleman, careful of its character, its honour, and
its dignity; who know everything relating to its proceed-
ings , and who, uuostentatiously, had done much to improve I
those proceedings, and to adapt its manner of transacting
private business to the vast end various increase that would
otherwise have overrun Parliament. Mr. Bernal was a fine 1
specimen of thorough liberality of political opinions. and
complete independe,xe of mere cliquerie, accomp ,nied by
cultivated understanding, good taste, and courteous manner:.
He had become, too, part and parcel of the House; and on
is re-assembling the question will instinctively arise to !
many tongues, when advice is wanted or information is I
sought, " Where is Bernal?" Rochester may well blush
for his exclusion ; the loss is public ; but the disgrace is local.
The absence of Mr. Bernal in the next Parliament will,
moreover, be the more marked, seeing that Lancaster also has
excluded Mr. Greene, who was Sir Robert Peel's Chairman
of Ways and Means. Two men of great Parliamentary ex-
perience in the details of its business are what the House of
Commons can ill afford to lose, when led by a raw and inex-
perienced Minister, without a majority. The loss will. how-
ever, tend to render the re-election of Mr. Shaw Lefevre to
the Speakership a political necessity; and the probability is
that Mr. Wilson Patten's pretensions to be Chairman of
Ways and Means will be adopted and promoted by a Go-
vernment in which he also has no great confidence. Mr.
Wilson Patten is, no doubt, a sensible business-like man, and
will fill the chair creditably; but he is far inferior in every
respect to Mr. Bernal, and not equal in any to Mr. Greene.
Next to the loss of Mr. Bernal we would place the ex-
clusion of Mr. Horsman and Sir Edward Buxton ; and to
them we might appropriately add, in a House where eccle-
siastical reformers will be few, Mr. Hardcastle. It is now
some sixteen years ago since Mr. Horsman entered Parlia-
ment a young and active Whig of the Edinburgh school;
and for years he laboured hard in the ranks of Whiggery.
But he, too, found it " dry bones ;" and long ago Mr. Hors-
man renounced its trammels and its alliances, as he had also
refused its profits and emoluments. Qualifying himself by a
long, arduous, and costly study of the existing condition of
the Church of England, he boldly occupied the vacant field
of ecclesiastical reform, and, by a succession of motions and
s _p_ee.ches during the last five years, in spite of the sneers of
w sgery and the hostility of Toryism, he had brought the
sickle to the rank and luxuriant growth of church and epis-
copal weeds; when coercion, and intimidation, and corrup-
tion at Cockermouth, have withdrawn Mr. Horsman, for a
season at least, from the scene of his labours.
In many of his
practical,
reoffayrts he received much cordial and
effective (because ti
sistance from Sir Edwa Buintelligent, and informed) as-
of whom the dull men ofdEextoLand Mr. Hardcastle, both
not the only, or perhaps the
chief, voeuredjected. But that is
n on which the loss of
Sir Edward Buxton is to be ground
regretted. Sir Edward did
more than represent South Essex ; he represenhtztahlarge
class of moral sentiment, of humanity, and of
useful in the House of Commons as a corrective)to the hog,
material, coarse spirit which excludes the feelings, and al-
most the virtues of life, from its philosophy.
The next Parliament will be the first in modern times in
which the heir apparent of the liberal house of Fortescue has
not had a seat; and many a man in the Liberal ranks could
have been more easily spared than the present Lord
Ebrington. For though, in general politics, very apt to
adhere too rigidly to Lord John Russell, Lord Ebrington
had a speciality ; and it was sanitary reform. This
cause—the cause of the poor and the helpless—had
almost become a passion, certainly an enthusiasm with Lord
Ebrington. In his zeal for health and cleanliness even his
hereditary Whiggery cooled ; and for it there was no labour
or trouble he would not undergo. There are few who have
Lord Ebrington's ardour in this respect ; let us hope, then,
that a petition will restore him to the House. And whilst on
Lords, let us pay a passing tribute of regret to Lord Dun-
can's absence; for he too, and even in a higher and better
degree, rose above the prejudices of his order; and two suc-
cesses of his past Parliamentary career gave presage of still
greater future usefulness. It is to Lord Duncan that the
country owes such reform in the composition of the Boards
of Woods and Works, and in the administration and manage-
ment of the Crown property, as it has yet got—to him also
we are indebted for the repeal of Pitt's abominable tax on
light. There is too large a capacity for public business, com-
bined with a thorough liberality of opinions, in Lord Duncan,
for him not to bs missed in the new House of Commons.
Why Oldham should have rejected Mr. W. J. Fox puzzles
people who have not the advantage of living in Oldham ;
except, indeed, that the very name (though unaccompanied
by the genius) of Cobbett, has irresistible fascinations for its
constituency, or that Oldham finds enjoyment in being
eccentric, and capricious, and ungrateful. But so it is;
Oldham has deprived the House of Commons of the elo-
quence and suggestive, if not always accurate, thought of
Mr. Fox, and has preferred to his great exertions on behalf
of secular education, the vain and illusory promises and
professions of that nondescript political animal —a Derbyite.
Radical.

Mr. Anstey, too ( whatever Whigs may say, and in spite
of the injustice he was ever doing himself), is a real loss.
For Mr. Anstey was a leader of forlorn hopes ; and though
sometimes rash awl boisterous, he was full of courage and
gallantry, and fuller still of learning and ability. Mr.
Anstey ran the whole gamut of Politics; nothing was too
large or too small for his zeal. To him were consigned al'
the motions for which other people had neither the taste nor
the ability, neither the industry nor the courage.
The Whigs have to mourn the defeats of Sir John Ro-
milly and Sir William Somerville. But in the absence from
Parliament of the former, the best interests of the public.
and the purity and character of justice, will gain. And it
might be well, now that the Master of the Rolls is absent
and the question could have no personal bearing, for the
Legislature to perpetuate the exclusion of that great func-
tionary. Though of late oppressed by official Whiggery,
Sir W. Somerville had larger sympathies; and the absence
of his large and accurate acquaintance with Ireland will be
felt in the new House of Commons.
On all occasions Mr. Hayworth was a good steady intel-
ligent Radical; Sir Edward Colebrooke was a Member whose
real merits were often obscured by. !modesty and want of
force; Colonel Thompson's was
an old familiar face that all
will miss and regret; though the seats formerly occupied by
Mr. D'Eyncourt and Mr. G. Thou:II:Ton are still filled by
Liberals, we cannot part with old friends without
thanking
praised—they
them for aid and assistance timeivw when Liberal
were far less popular than—lleaen be e
are now.
Still, even with these battle with no fear as to
losses, our ranks.. are crowded;_
and we shall give Lord Derby
whose will be the victory.—Morning ru

The following I,E IaIONS,
list of an pensions granted between the
CIVIL LIST
v,',, issued yesterday :-
1 ovi in consideration of
20th day of June, 1851, and the 20th day of June, 1852,
William Thackeray and
hlBersl
and chargel upon the Civil List,
. literary— A ug 1851.—August
et
r3l
tos,. Art
In a
trust James
Mr. John Murray. September 1, Maria Long, 10W., in
consideration of the services of her late husband, Mr. Frede-
rick Beckford Long, Inspector-General of Prisons in Ire-
mteos oxiii ,r.
land, and of his having died from illness contracted while in
the execution of his dUty, by wbich she is placed in circum.
stances of great distress. In trust to the Hon. Edward Cecil
Curzon and Mr. John Martin, M.P. September 1, James
Silk Buckingham, 2001., in consideration of his literary
works and useful travels in various countries. September 2,
Robert Torrens, F.R.S., 2001., in consideration of his valu-
able contributions to the science of political economy. Oc-
tober 10, John Wilson, Professor of Moral Philosophy in
the University of Edinburgh, 300/., in consideration of his
eminent literary merits. October 10, Elizabeth Reid,
50/. (widow of Dr. James S. Reid, Professor of Ecc2esias..
tical and Civil History in the University of Glasgow) • and
Jane Arnott Reid, Elizabeth Reid. and Mary Held,' 501
(daughters of the above, and for the survivors or survivor .
them), in consideration of Dr. Reid's valuable of
contributions
to literature, and of the distressed condition in
which
widow and hildren are placed by his decease.,his
the Rev. George Bellis and James Seaton in trust to
Feb. 5, 1852, Eliza MacArthur, 50/, in co Reid, M.D.
merits of her late husband, Dr. Alexandernsideration of the
su-
perintendent of model schools, and in MacArthur,
district under the Commissioners of inspector of the Dublin
Ireland, and of his having been attacked National Education in
ment, attributed solely to his nab by mental derangc-
discharge of his official duties, and ounded exertions in the
the pension of 20W, per annum, also in consideration that
during the lifetime of her
cease. In trust to Dr. G husband, has lapsed by his de-
Mackenzie. April ,
5, eorge Denby and Captain Alexander
his literary merits John Britton, 751, in consideration of
Mary Fitzgibbon, and impoverished condition. April
n, 751., in .5,
rendered by consideration of the signal ser-
vices her ath
various occasions in C father Colonel James Fitzgibbon, "1
in which she will be anada, and of the destitute condition
to Mr. G. left at her father's death. In trust
,-, de B. Att
accountant of the wood, secretary, and Mr. T. tyoof,
1,2001. Bank of British North America.'lota',

.„,.
s. -1---- —Mr.
Free Epts-
FURTHER .510NITION OF Ar.LR. u-LADsTONE• -
Gladstone, who has accepted the pastorate ofbaave preached
copal Chapel at St. Mary's Torquay, was
there on Sunday last. This, however, vf.aes pan of Arches,
further ecclesiastical document from toubev, the decision of
arising out of, and admonishing him to
r.
AI Gladstone s plans
that Court. In consequence of this, _ .
not
did j?reach on Sun-
are for the resent frustrated:
Ho
do so UDtil he has taken
°prevented by a
day last, asp advertised, nor will be, embraces. the whole
further legal advice. The EM?_.,'".,, therefore includes the
of "the province of Canterouu t
Mr. Gladstone's new church is
orrrAL.—The annual general
situate.diocese of Exeter, in which
CHARING- Ca°ss ors
ri, of this charity was held yesterday
in the absence of Lord R. Grosvenor.
meeting of the overt, of the hospital, the chair being
taken by a governor,
be committee gave a very favourable account
been 17,995.
the institution during the year, the nuin-
Tafht eerrneopoonrti no the lit 00 of the
.
Of these 1 260 were in •
pativb,.
of the Prqr.,e,9:baving
ber. of number of accidents admitted during the year
patle,1!!!;8. of these 728 were from falls from elevations;
was -"`n•rig of earth, buildings, &c 93 • steam-engine,
from cranetalking
accidents, 78 ;
Mill, and and
scalds, explosions, 74; immersion in water, tak-
ing rads,,
lete.rous articles, and noxious gases, 25; bites of
animals,l2; personal violence, blows, anti stabs, 278 ; from
cutting instruments, contusions, &C., 580; apoplexy, 65;
hernia and bminorrhage, 65. Of the total number of patients
16,498 had been cured or relieved, 57 had died, and 240 were
under treatment. 204,858 patients had been treated since
the opening
of the institution. The funds received during
the ear amounted to 3,5541. 13s. 21.,d., including a former
balance of 3181.85. 2IA d.; and the expenditure had umounted
to 2,490/. 11s. 23/4d., leaving a considerable balance. The
committee were very anxious to complete the upper portion
of the building, which still remains unfinished, and for that
purpose had opened a separate building fund, the total
amount of which was at present 1,/51/. As soon as this
desirable end shall have been accomplished they will have
50 more beds at their disposal, and will be enabled to ac-
commodate from 500 to 600 more patients yearly. The re-
port was received and unanimously agreed to; and, after the
usual routine business, the meeting thanked the chairman
and flaParated'i