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LONDON MONDAY, JULY 12, 1852.

A careful analysis of the electioneering returns
already made shows that out of 358 new Members,
there are—
FOR THE OPPOSITION • • • • • • ••• 249
FOR THE GOVERNMENT ••• ••• • • 109

.. 140
MAJORITY FOR
that its accuracy may
be questioned.
The calculation is so startling,be
objected that from the
TuEOpPosyriox..
he
OpConservatives. But those 88
249 accorded to It
t
88 who are Liberal rna).position should be subtracted
would vote in favour
Liberal Conservatives
BY Administration. Even
of free trade, and
antagonists of the must therefore be regarded as
thatsake of argument, that these
ca-e—supposing, for the
were set aside on neutral
supposing, however, DER
this were really not the
Liberal Conservativ.es
'1 remain an aggregate of
ground—there would
Liberals (Whigs or .
Radical)
the Opposition, even when
altogether. Comparing
still
amounting to 161
thus restricted, with the '
Alinisterialists, there would
still be found remaining to the former a clear majority
the Government. Aa
a supposition were
we have remarked, however, such
of fifty-two over the supporters of
..
wholly
indissolubly
Libe-
ral Conservatives is as intimately and
alsurd, because the great party of the
allied now-a.days with the anti-ToryOpposition,
as the Whigs and Radicals have long been connected
wi'h each other as Reformers. The sum total, there-
fore, of the Opposition—composed of 161 Liberals
and 88 Liberal Conservatives—must be estimated at
249 in the aggregate. It will thus be perceived, as
above demonstrated, that there has already been se-
cured, out of 358 n•-w Members, a clear majority
of 140 over the DtanT Government.
Bat—there are the counties! Yes,
there are,
doubtless, many advantages to be gained
yet, in point
of numbers, by the Cabinet on presenting their can
didates before the county constituencies. But then
again—the Opposition (oe4ies the accessions to be
made in the same direction) have their grand reserve
also : and that grand reserve, of course, is Ireland !
although Mr. REYNOLDS has been thrown out by
island the
the recent conflict for the representation of
Dublin, -there cannotb be a
sister
doubt
any longer that elsewhere w
murestipnroaviae
signally
If anything had been needseed to
o
the Adrui.ois
that
additional inducement would have
-result of th.etatartuiogig)
secure this—.
dissolution of the last Parliament.
in the Ministerial proceedings
thelame-
•bly exceed the intense feeling of
dbieaetnei
Nothing can pass' .
et engendered among all ranks
hostility to the Cabin
Catholics by the procla-
yfolibßefdore
England against processions.
mation published in..Eh
in Ireland, transformed a
and classes of Irish Roman
That proclamation iras, -
political struggle into a religious rivalry more reso-
lute, more enthusiastic, and more generally partici-
pated in than the religious rivalry Preceding the Act
then will
of Catholic emancipation. From Ireland
come an extraordinary addition to the clear majority
already secured to her MAJESTY'S Opposition.
1. i
Again—examining more cautiously and de.
herately than (with all our care) we were enabled to do
on Saturday io'o the relative
gains and losses of the
Cabinet, we find that-Ministers are even there still at a
disadvantage. The reality of this may be readily
demonstrated. The gain. to the Opposition—instead 1
of being, as declared in our last—are no less than
thirty-four in the aggregate. Aylesbury wa's inad-
vertently given in our former li.t ca
yielciing two
gains to the Liberal cause, whereas the
constituency
having already returned Mr. BETHELL iu the
April
of last year, the addition from Aylesbury this time
to the catalogue of the Opposit.iou has been, of course,
in the person of Dr. LAYARD, that of a single repre-
sentative. The total of gains to the Liberal cause
should have been given therefore as twenty-seven in-
stead of twenty-eight. Added to these twenty-seven
there are eight more gains since requiring to be