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London, England, 1859-05-31 00:00:00

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NEW MEMBERS.
S. Herbert

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Lord H. Thynne
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Eon. IV. Duncombe
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Sir J. Ogilvy 114
Mr _Mono eif
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A. Matheson • •
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'Sir T. Colebrooke
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Sir A. Agnew ..

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'J. Ennis
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R. Davidson , .
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Torrens
Mr. Lanegan
J. Bagwell

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M. Sullivan • •
Mr. Arnott
F. W. Russell
Major Gavin
J. Richardson
Sir R. A. Ferguson
Mr. Longfteld
C. Tottenham

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Col. Darner

THE NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS.

(From the Daily News.)

Notwithstanding the pains that are taken to fill
the public mind with doubts regarding the impend-
ing struggle for great principles in Parliament, we
continue to look with unabated confidence to the
triumph of the party of progress in that contest
over the party of resistance to reform at home and
liberty abroad. The conflict will unquestionably
be, in the higher sense of the phrase, a party one ;
for it will involve the condemnation of those who
would maintain an anti-national policy, and the
investiture with administrative power of those
whose lives have been devoted to the development
of popular rights, and whose characters as public
men are the best pledge that their measures would
be in harmony with popular will. Therefore it is
that the displacement of their opponents—on no
petty or personal ground, but on that which is broad,
permanent, and, as a matter of fact, uncontested
and incontestible—is looked forward to with calm
but deep-felt interest by the great body of the com-
munity. The late Parliament, when called upon,
expressed its opinion in significant terms of the in-
eptitude of the present Government for the duties
which the time demands. On the great legislative
question of the day the Derbyite Cabinet, after
ample opportunity for deliberation, not only failed
to produce such a measure as Parliament could
sanction as a whole, but they actually produced a
scheme so repugnant to constitutional principle and
to popular feeling as to deserve and draw down
upon them severe Parliamentary censure. What
have they since done ? They have called together
a new House of Commons, avowedly in the hope
that it would undo what had been done by that
which was dissolved a month ago. Formally they
will not of course dare to raise again the question,
as men would do who hoped for a reversal of grave
condemnation. There it stands, an historic sen-
tence against them of incompetency to deal with
the most vital and pressing requirement of the
time ; and now that they have got a Parlia-
ment which they have tried to pack as far as
possible with creatures of their own, there
it will continue to stand, without an attempt being
made to rescind it, a lasting memento of the un-
teachableness of Toryism.
It will be for the new House of Commons, how-
ever, to take thought for the vindication of its own
dignity and moral right to exercise sway over the
destinies of the nation that has just elected it, by
choosing with decision and declaring with firmness
which path it will tread. Its predecessor ended
well, but it began badly and hesitated long. Few
things of much value were accomplished during the
two years of its undecided existence. But the days
of indecision are past. The country is tired of
wavering and waiting. The new house has been
elected with urgent and peremptory injunctions to
make up for lost years in the correction of acknow-
ledged abuses in our electoral system, and the ex-
pansion of civil privileges commensurately with the
increased intelligence and industry of the people.
If the representatives of the nation would not break
the pledges they have so recently given at the
hustings, they itmst inaugurate their legislative
reign by declaring what their policy is to be, and in
whom they will confide for carrying it out. The
general election we have just passed through will
be set down in our annals as a mere mockery and
farce, if the decision come to after so much cost
and trouble were practically to go for nothing. It
may, indeed, be true in a certain sense—a small
personal and factious sense—that the public at
large shows comparatively little care for individual
pretensions or party rivalries ; and it certainly is
true that men were never in our recollection less
disposed to clamour for mere names or watchwords.
But what is this but the cessation of prejudices as
the governing motives of political life, and the
growth instead of the worthier and better habit of
being governed by soberly and deliberately formed
opinions ? Large bodies of men will no longer
vote black white at a signal given to suit the con-
vience of their party. Here and there a limited
number may be found to do so ; but wherever
the attempt is made on a large scale it is sure
to fail. No man, either priest or layman, Whig
or Tory, has nowadays the power to order or
wheedle great sections of the community into sud-
denly acting at variance with the course they have
previously pursued. What is true of the educated
community in general is especially true of their
representatives in Parliament. Of late years the
complaint has become more frequent and more loud,
that the House of Commons is becoming " quite
unmanageable ;" that is to say, unmanageable with-
out its own consent—unmanageable by cliques and
coteries of great men, or great impostors—unma-
nageable without reference to the feelings and
expectations it was constituted to represent. In
this respect, it is to be hoped that each successive
House of Commons will prove more unmanageable.
In proportion as it does so, the realisation of the po-
pular will will less and less depend on the humour
or the pride of particular individuals. We have
always believed that there is much less of witch.
craft or necromancy in statesmanship than the
exclusive classes would have it supposed. In a free
State, what is wanted chiefly in political leader-
ship is calmness of judgment, force of will, and
singleness of purpose. All the dodging and diplo-
macy that whippers-in delight in and extol is but
dust and ashes in the balance of permanent in-
fluence and permanent reputation.
It is because we know that in the coming struggle