The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-30 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1852•

Nothing—beyond the decision of the electors
Orkney—remeins now to be learnt in reference to
the character of the new Parliament. The returns have
been carefully collected, with the solitary exception
specified, from all pat to of the United Kingdom, and
something like a rational estimate may therefore be
at length formed as to the relative strength of parties
on the re-assembling of the Legislature. Several of
our contemporaries have calculated the result of Lord
DERBY'S appeal to the country, but all of them evince
the bias of their political predilections in the extra-
vagant obliquity of their deductions. According to
the Morning Post 275 Liberals subtracted from
289 Derbyites, leave just fourteen as the
majority for the Ministerialsta ! According to
the Morning Herald 269. Liberals subtracted from
311 Derbyite!,
leave no less than forty-two as the
Liberal
majority for the Ministerialists !
,lijanpaonofththee
opposite
band, the
proportionately encouraging
estiroat2s made by
the or
party afford a prospect
to the Opposition, AccOrGing to the Daily News, I,
there are 285 Derby itea to be arrayed against 293
a majority of eight to the anti.
Liberals, leaving
Ministerialists ! According to the Morning Chronicle
and fully 367 Lib,.
there are merely 286 Derbsites,
rals—a calculation yielding actually eighty-one as the
majority of the Opposition ! Proceeding upon a
somewhat more secure, and therefore a somewhat
more credible system, the Times has divided
i
the new Members into three
n
divisions, g d
63 to the
giving 252 to
the Derbyites, 271 to the Liberal!, a
"doubtfuts," or as it designates them generally, the
Liberal Conservatives. Since these returns were re-
ceived others have arrived in rapid su
rehensive
ccosion, SO that
we are enabled to form some more comp
idea as to the relative force of the numbers ranged
en the aide of the Government—on the cross benches
—and on the benches of the Opposition.
Our calculations we believe will be found, on
amtioy, to approximate more closely to the truth
than any that could have been previously advanced--a
• more accurate conception of the matter being in fact
more attainable just now than was practicable under
previous circumstances. In another part of this
evening's impression of our journal will be found an
accurate list of the newly elected representatives. It
will be observed that the Members have been there
simply classified in two columns as Liberals ,and
Ministerialists. According to this rough calculation
there will be found exactly 653 returned, these 653
being thus divided—
Liberals

Ministerialists ...

369
.. 284

Majority against the Government 8
"
It would be impossible, however, to
referred us loosely rest
a 1
with g ethel'
satisfied with
t hto
an estimate dealing
the doubtful Members—already
as the
Liberal Conservatives. Separating this section of the
scrupulously
new House of Commons from the mass of tboreugh-
going Liberals and thoroughgoing Derbyites, we
have found by a careful, and we will add
conscientious estimate made by ourselves, that the
653 new Members will stand thus divided. :
Derbyites ... .. ... 268
Liberal Conservatives • • 76
... Liberals /11. Of • 309
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Altogether ••• 653
We have discovered, moreover, that out of these
m 76 " doubtful" .
rabers, 60 have swelled the total of
Abe Liberals from 309 f,
to 369.—while 16 have been
":141‘:' • ed to the D b •
-aptortion er
Yltes, makit3g 284, instead
of 268 sUPPorter3 the Dann Government. We

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