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London, England, 1841-08-19 00:00:00

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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1841.

We present our readers this day with the most copious
and comprehensive Parliamentary List yet published.
It contains, alphabetically arranged, the names of the
Reformers and Tories in separate divisions, the state of
the polls, and the constituency for the counties and
boroughs, with the names of the successful and unsuc-
' cessful candidates ; the designation of the Members as
published in the Gazette, on the authority of the Crown-
Office ; and concludes with interesting details of the
births, marriages, family connexions, and political opi-
nions of 656 representatives of the people.
Since the election two vacancies have taken place,
caused by the death of Mr. LISTER, elected for Brad-
ford, and Lord FAVERSHAM, who is succeeded by his
eldest son, the lion. WILLIAM PUNCOMBE, elected fur
the North Riding of Yorkshire. We have endeavoured
to give the lists with correctness and impartiality ; and
if any errors should have escaped our notice, our readers
will attribute them, not to neglect or inattention, but to
the great difficulty of arranging a Table comprehending
so many complicated and multifarious details.

The speech of the Rev. Dr. ATKINS at the
opening of the Anti-Corn-law Conference at
Manchester, embodies a very frightful, but a
very correct picture of the state of this country.
Arrived, as England is, at the highest pinnacle
of greatness in arts, of glory in arms--4bound-
ing, as she does, in enormous masses of un-
wieldy wealth—rolling, as she is, in the most re-
fined and expensive luxury—extending, as she
does, her sway and her commanding moral in-
fluence to the remotest nations; it is a fact as
true as it is lamentable that thousands of the
most nJeful class of her subjects are at this
moment in a state of utter and absolute starva-
tion. With wealth enough in England to pur-
' chase the fee-simple of half the world, it is de-
plorable to think of the masses of human beings,
not only in the manufacturing districts but in this
great- metropolis, whom_hungsr is,— hourly
sweeping into a premature grave. Let
philosopher who would wish this subject to
sink into his soul, take a walk any day in the
week from Charing-cross to Cheapside. At every
step he will survey right and left of him heaps
of goldj and of silver, and of precious stones,
and piles of bullion and countless wealth, in all
the various forms in which luxury causes it to be
consumed. When he has surveyed all this, and
marvelled at the r:eheS of the men who purchase

and revel in these luxuries—who feed out of
;old and silver dishes, arid drink out of gold and
silver cups—who ornament the liveries of their
lacqueys, and the harness of their horses, with
precious metals—let him turn into any of the
countless alleys and lanes running out of his
main path, and contrast, with what he has seen,
the sights of human suffering and degradation
which will there arrest him at every step. Let
him pass through Shoreditch, and explore the pur-
lieus of Drury-lane and St. Giles's.. and if what he
beholds fills him not with horror, there is little
human about him, save the form. Here he
w ill find once strong, and still industrious men,
reduced to the condition- of walking skeletons
women once innocent, perhaps virtuous, in whom
the hunger of the body had killed the soul ; arid
wretches dying with want, whom the crumbs
from the table of the rich man's menial cast
heedlessly to dogs, would restore to health.
Whence this wide inequality in the condition of
English society ? We answer, in a great mea-
sure from party legislation—from the robbery by
Parliament of one class to elevate another. The
landlords make laws to suit themselves at the
expense of the working classes. What their
ancestors did in the feudal ages at the head of a
gang of robbers, they do by means of an Act of
Parliament—Viz. plunder those too defenceless
to resist them. 0 all descriptions of Par-

!liamentary robbery, that effected by the Corn-
'aws 13 the most wicked and the most detest
ab.e. la. I ther robberies, the property is as-
sailed, here th , 'ife is attacked. And after wit-
nessing, the deplorable misery caused among the
poor by the high price of food; after learning
the ravages of disease produced by bad and in-
efficient quantities of diet, can we arrive at any
o:her conclusion than that these laws are most
prodigal in the extinction of life ? The eloquent
statement of the Rev. Dr. ATKINS upon this
point cannot be too seriously reflected upon :as
" What, he would ask, was the present state of the
British Empire ? This country, possessing within itself
inexhaustible resources, whilst it was the richest in the
world, was, in one sense, also the poorest. Its popula-
tion, instinct as it Was with ardour, and unrivalled for
its industry, was unemployed and in want. Looms were
silent—manufactories were closed—commercial men
looked at each other in consternation and despair !
What was the condition of the poor artisans and pea-
sants ? Their lank arms hung idle by their sides—their
grim visages were pallid with privation and care—and
their worn forms exhibited but the skeletons of men.
What is the cause of such a state of things ? It was to
be found in the laws which prohibit the exchange of
labour for food. Our population see abundance in the
countries around them, but they are debarred from en-
joying it. Like the poor disciples of a poorer master,
they shake their tattered garments and say, " Gold and
silver have we none, but we will purchase your corn by
our. industry." lt wa to put an end to such an unwise
and unnatural system as this that they were assembled— .
to put an end to it, not by violence or clamour, but by
means equally . scriptural and constitutional. The
moral atmosphere was charged with thunder•clouds. If
the tempest burst upon the country, it would carry
desolation in its track."

The moral atmosphere is indeed charged with
thunder-clouds, and woe to those foolish, self=
confident legislators who provoke the bursting
of the tetnpest. What effect the Conference now
sittingatManchester may have upon the councils
of Sir ROBERT PEEL and his friends, we pretend
not to say ; but we know that tile effect upon
the country will be immense. But it will by no
means serve as a conductor fbr guiding the storm

innocently over the heads of the Tories
if they persist in withholding bread from the
mouths of a famishing people. Of this fact-we
warn them to rest entirely assured.

1 MPERIAL PARLIAMEN".

HOUSE OF LORDS -(THIS DAY

Parliament was opened by Commission this day. The Lords
Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Duncannon, the
Marquis uf Normanhy, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and the Earl
of Clarendon.

The Lords Commissioners took their seats at the foot of the
Throne shortly after two o'clock, when they directed the Commons
to be summoned to the Bar. The Clerk of the House of Commons,
attended by a numerous body of Members. shortly afterwards ap-
pearcd et the Bar, when, the Commission having been read, they
were directed to return to the House and choose a Speaker. The
Members of the House of Commons then withdrew.
After the Commission had been opened their Lordships were
unable for a considerable time to proceed with any further
business, in consequence of the absence of all the Bishops.
It appears that no Peer can be sworn in until after prayers have
been read, neither can the gallery be opened. On the
present occasion no Bishop was to be found, and after
waiting until a quarter to three o'clock, the Right Honourable
and Reverend Lori Bayning (a Peer in holy orders)
read prayers, their Lordships proceeded to business, and the gallery
was opened. On our admission to the gallery, we found the Lord
Chancellor at the table taking the oaths. Several other
Peers then came up to the table and were sworn. Among Mesa
we observed the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Westminster,
the Marquis of Normanby, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of
Clarendon, the Earl of Verulam, Viscount Duncannon, Earl Sefton,
Lord Langdale, Lord Hill, Lord Willoughby, Lord Stratford, Lord
Redesdale, the Duke. of Bedford, Lord Poltimore, the Earl of
Errol.

The Duke of Wellington was the first Peer who subscribed the
Parliamentary Roll, and was followed by Lord Duncannon.
reral other Peers were then sworn in, and their Lordships adjourned
at a Quarter-past Three o'Clock.