The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-10 00:00:00

Morning

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1546.

We noticed yesterday Mr. GLADSTONE'S significant
farewell to the constituency with which he has been
connected from his first entrance into public life.
" Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illia,"
says or sings Mr. GLADSTONE.
" Ternpora mutantur, et non mutamur in illis,"

rejoins the Lord of Newark and Clumber for himself ;
and in the irreconcileable confusion of these various
readings Mr. GLADSTONE is forced to bid good bye to
Newark and look out for a close borough elsewhere.
Mr. GLADSTONE has no right to complain. The
Duke of NEWCASTLE means to do likewise by his own
son and heir, Lord LINCOLN, in South Nottingham-
shire.

The amount of nomination among the Members of
the Government in the House of Commons is a strik-
ing point of view from which to regard the present
state of the representation. Where they are not abso-
lutely nominees they will be found to represent small
and corrupt constituencies. There is not a repre-
sentative of a strictly popular constituency among
them; and almost all are nominees.

Take- first the members 'of the Cabinet.' Sir R.
PEEL returns himself for the borough of Tamwortb,
which numbers 452 electors. Sir J. GRAHAM is
turned for Dorchester (396 electors) by Mr.
LIAMS, the banker. Mr. GLADSTONE'S farewell letter is
a confession that he has hitherto sat by the Duke of
NEWCASTLE'S nomination for Newark. By the
Duke of NEWCASTLE'S nomination Lord LINCOLN
at present sits for South Nottinghamshire. Mr.
SYDNEY HERBERT is Member for South Wiltshire
through the influence of his brother, Lord PEM•
BROKE's, and his own possessions. Lord GRANVILLE
SOMERSET is nominated by his brother, the Duke of
BEAUFORT, for Monmouthshire. The only other
member of the Cabinet in the House of Commons is

Mr. GOULBURN, returned by the University of Cam-

bridge—not so popular a constituency as to atone by
itself for the nominations of all his Cabinet brethren.

We descend below the Cabinet, and first on the
list is Sir THOMAS FREMANTLE, Secretary for Ire-
land, by the grace of the Duke of BUCKINGHAM
Member for Buckingham (393 electors). Sir GEORGE
CLERK, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, is
Member for Stamford (638 electors), by permission
of the Marquis of EXETER ; and Mr. BARING, Pay-
master of the Forces, for Thetford (192 electors), by
nomination of Lord ASHBURTON. Dr. NICHOLL,
the Judge Advocate, represents Cardiff (710 elec-
tors), a family borough. Mr. YOUNG, Secretary to
the Treasury, sits for an Irish county, Cavan, by

permission of Lord FARNHAM ; while Mr. CARDWELL,
the other Treasury Secretary, is the only representa-
tive of a manufacturing borough among all the mem-
bers of the Government, and that borough, a small
one Clitheroe (412 electors), which, however,
will never return him again. Mr. CORRY, Se-
cretary to the Admiralty, is Member for the Irish
county of Tyrone by virtue of his brother, Lord BEL-.
MORE'S property. The two Secretaries to the Board
of Control are Lord JOCELYN and Lord MenoN, the
former of whom represents Lynn (980 electors), a
borough notoriously corrupt, and the latter is Lord
SALISBURY'S Member for Hertford. Mr. MANNERS
SUTTON, Under-Secretary for the Home Department,
and Sir FITZROY KELLY, Solicitor-General, together
represent the immaculate borough of Cambridge
(1,904 electors). The Attorney-General, Sir F.
THESIGER, when driven out of Woodstock by his
Grace of MARLBOROUGH, got Mr. DUFFIELD to make
over to him the 315 electors of Abingdon, and they
are still his. The Irish Attorney-General and Sir
GEORGE COCKBURN, one of the Lords of the Admi-

ralty, are the two Members for Ripon (341 elec-
tors), made so by the late Mrs. LAWRENCE, and
continued so by Lord DR GREY. Admiral BOWLES,
another Lord of the Admiralty, sits for Launceston
(344 electors) by the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND'S
influence; Captain GORDON, another, for Aberdeen-
shire, by his brother, Lord ABERDEEN'S influence;
and Mr. FITZROY, another Lord of the Admiralty,
for the pure borough -of Lewes (900 electors), it
would be supposed by bribery, but that Mr, FITZ-
ROY has called GOD to witness, on the floor of the
House of Commons, that he never spent a shilling in
bribery or corruption. The Lords of the Treasury
are, Mr. GASEELL, Member for Wenlock (949 elec-
tors), Mr. BARING, Marlborough (256 electors, pa-
tron, Lord AILESBURY), Mr. FORBES MACKENZIE,

Peebleshire (Duke of BUCCLEUCK, patron), and Mr.
CRIPPS, Cirencester (496 electors, Lord BATHURST pa-
tron). Colonel PEEL, Lord ARTHUR LIMO', and
Sir FREDERICK TRENCH hold offices in the Ordnance :
the first sits for Huntingdon (374 electors), by Lord
SANDWICH'S nomination ; the second for Chichester
(789 electors), by the Duke of RICHMOND'S; and Sir
FREDERICK TRENCH is Member for Scarborough
(537 electors). The Lord Advocate sits for Ar-
gyllshire, by permission of the Duke of ARGYLL.
Sir CHARLES DOUGLAS, Commissioner of Greenwich
Hospital, is LORD WARWICK'S Member for Warwick
(911 electors).

The following members of the Household are in
the House of Commons as follows :—Colonel DAW•
SON DAMER, Member for Portarlington (185 electors),
a family borough ; Lord ENNEST BRUCE, Mr.
BARING'S co-nominee for Marlborough (256 electors) ;
Lord JERMYN, Member for Bury St. Edmunds (744
electors), through his father, the Marquis of BRIs-
TOL'S influence ; Captain METNELL, Member for

Lisburn (331 electors), by the Marquis of HERT-
FORD'S influence ; Lord C. WELLESLEY, Member for
South Hants, of which his father, the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON, is Lord• Lieutenant ; and Captain DUN-
COMBE, Member for East Thetford (2,596 electors).
The general results are very striking, and should
be known. Of thirty•nine members of the Govern-
ment, in the House of Commons, twenty• nine have

their seats notoriously by nomination. Twenty-seven
represent boroughs, the whole united number of whose
electors is 16,14.5,—n0t so many in all as the con-
stituency of the City of London—hardly more than
the electors of Liverpool—less than a quarter of the
number of electors of the five metropolitan boroughs
of Finsbury, Marylebone, Lambeth, Tower Hamlets,
and Westminster. Such is the composition of the
Government in the House of Commons. And by the
state of the Government you may judge the state of
the representation.
There is another very striking circumstance in the
list of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government—the number
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