The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-31 00:00:00

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tONT)ON, SATURDAY. JULY 31, 1852.

Yesterday we bhowed by calculation, the accuracy
of which cannot possibly be disputed, that out of the
654 newly elected Members
of the House of Com-
mons, the Opposition has a ine• •
against the Government. There are, of Forty-one
exactly Forty-one Roman Catholicsaret moreover,
that the Cath
numbered
amongst the new representatives--so
lics returned to the Legislature give the majority oto-
the Opposition. Already two of the
Members re-
cently returned have departed this life, having been
carried off by sudden indisposition. Mr. Deneurar
one of the elected of Oldham has, in this manner,
been followed very rapidly by Mr. WATsoN, one of
the elected of Peterborough. There are consequently
652 representatives prepared at this moment to obey
the Royal proclamation by which her Most Gracious
Keener will, somewhere about the third week of
October, summon her faithful Parliament to as-
semble in the legislative palace at Westminster.
Altogether tire right " complement '' of the House of
Commons would of course be 658 representatives•
The disfranchisement of Sudbury and St. Albans
(both returning formerly two Members) has reduced
the aggregate to 654: and this again has been
tvifhin the fast few days reduced to 652 by the un-
"Petted demise of, first, one of the Members
for Oldham, and, secondly, of one of the Nein-
hers
for Peterborough. Setting aside the two
last-mentioned and the four originally returned by
St. Albans and
Sudbury—the right number, namely,
652, have been-
al ready declared duly elected by the
the United
Kingdom,e
throughout the constituencies of
returningafn
although the account of the
result of the
yet
been
received. This
Orkney and Shetland has not
_This difference of one, however,
is compensated
for
instead of two by the singular return of three
errepresentatives of the bo-
rough of Knaresb
ougb. Directly intelligence
is received from Orkney
arrived at by that as to the decision
r
instead of having 652 We shalle have r"teconstituency,
5ea.653 legislators
returned aa duly elected to
Commons, and this, as we bevtes ini the House of j
ready indicated,
notwithstanding two of the
newly-elected
have recently died in the persons of Mr ri candidatesuecure and
Mr. Wete•sos, while the corrupt boroughs of
St.
uBl
Albans and Sudbury have been alike subjected
to the
penalty of disfranchisement.
It is generaliy understood, as above intimated,
that the new Parliament will assemble
-ewerd
t
the close of the month of October. The
session will then be necessarily very brief
in duration, and in a great measure, we presume,
solely
one of form and cerernimy a session arradged
for the purpose of inaugurating the recently.
created Legislature. Although the duties thus de-
volving upon the Lower House Will necessarily be of
a simple character, they must, at any rate, be pro-
tracted over several Weeks, if
only to enable the whole
of the new Members to be duly sworn in according to
custom, and to prepare the
Way for the consideration
as early as possible in the spring of
1853, at the
commencement of the
next session, iof exa-
mining the disputed elections carefully- amps