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 of
Orkney—remains now to be learnt in reference to
the character of the new Parliament. The returns have
been carefully collected, with the solitary exception
specifted, from all parts 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 Ministerialista ! According to
the Morning, _Herald 269 Liberals subtracted from
31l Derbyites, leave no less than forty-two as the
majority for the Minieterialists ! Upon the opposite
hand, the estimates made by the organs of the Liberal
party afford a prospect proportionately encouraging
to the Opposition. According to the Daily News,
there are 285 Derbyites to be arrayed against 293
Liberals, leaving a majority of eight to the anti-
Ministerialists ! According to the Morning Chronicle,
there are merely 286 Derbyites, and fully 367 Libe-
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
the new Members into three divisions, giving 252 to
the Darbyites, 271 to the Liberals, and 63 to the
" doubtfuls," or as it designates them generally, the
Liberal Conservatives. Since these returns were re-
ceived others have arrived in rapid succession, so that
we are enabled to form some more comprehensive
idea as to the relative force of the numbers ranged
on the side of the Government—on the cross benches
rand en the benches of the Opposition.
Our calculations we believe will be found, on
scrutiny, 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.t In another part of this
evening's
impression of journal will be found an
accurate list of the newlyelected representatives. It
the i‘
will be observed that Members
as Liberals and
embers have been there
simply classified in two columns
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 85
It would be impossible, however, to rest altogether
satisfied with an estimate dealing thus loosely with
the doubtful Members—already referred to as the
Liberal Conservatives. Separating this section of the
new House of Coinnlons from the,mass of thorough..
Ping Liberals and thoroughgo:ng Derbyites, vie
have found by a carc,,ful, and we will add scrupulously
conscientious estimaie made by ourselves, that the
CZ 3 new Members will stand thus divided :
Derbyites ••• 268
Liberal Conserva—ti . .
ves • • •• 76
Liberals 309
~.
...

Altogether
.. .., 653
We have discovered, moreover that out of these
76 "doubtful" Members, 60 have'swelled the total of
the Liberals from 309 to 363...whi1e 1G have been
apportioned to the Derbyites, making 284, instead
of 268 supporters of the DERBY Government. Wel

have considered it more just then to deduct these
16 and GO (making in all 76) Liberal Conservatives
from the respective aggregate of the Ministerialists
and the Opposition. Setting aside for a moment as
neutral, or at aay rate doubtful, the whole of the
section thus subtracted, namely, the section of 76
Liberal Conservatives—we find the 577 remaining
thus arrayed in two compact divisions :
Liberals ... ..• te• ••• 309
..•
Derby ites ... 268

Majority for the Opposition... 41
But even this cannot be accepted as sufficiently conclu-
sive to be satisfactory. There are the 76 " Doubtfuls"
altogether set aside, and not taken into consideration
in the foregoing calculation. Both sides of the House
are anxious, of course, to claim them for themselves.
The Opposition insists that they will necessarily be-
come ranked on the side opposed to the DVIBY Ad-
ministration. The supporters a the Cabinet main-
tain, on the contrary, that they must be mingled with
the Members sitting behind the bench of the Trea-
sury. Supposing we were to accept the declaration
in this matter made by the Derbyites, we should find
the following as the consequence :-268 Derbyites
joined to 76 Liberal Conservatives, making an aggre,-
gate of—

21inisterialists . •
Liberals .. •••

344
•••
••• ... 309

Majority against the Opposition 35
Supposing on the opposite hand that the Liberal
assertion about these doubtfuls be the true one, the
result would prove still more remarkable: 309 Re-
formers joined to 76 Liberal Conservatives, making
an aggregate as follows :
Opposition ..•
.. 385
D erbyites
.. 268