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London, England, 1859-05-03 00:00:00

arising therefrom. The experiment cannot be often
repeated. And in a brief period the monetary, if
not the physical, exhaustion must produce peace.

Meanwhile, England is in that respect facile
princeps. We have no pecuniary troubles as a
nation. It is true that the speculators on the
Stock Exchange have . suffered severely ; that
some fifty-five respectable firms have succumbed
under the existing pressure, but many will pay a
fair dividend, and the community at large are not
materially affected. Money is still but 31 per cent.,
and our pecuniary resources are ample. The
income-tax alone could raise twenty millions
sterling, although GOD forbid that it should ever
be required for warlike purposes. Still we could
go on where other nations must fail. Great
Britain will still be enabled to maintain the even
tenor of her way, and, amidst the fearful events
that are now occurring, will pass triumphantly
through the ordeal that may be imposed on her.
We invite the public attention to the statements
thus freely and openly made by the leader of the
representative branch of the Legislature. They
will well repay perusal, and it is only to be re.
gretted that the right hon. gentleman was not
enabled to make them at an earlier period, as they
musehave naturally influenced the returns in every
free and independent constituency.

The appeal to the country has, in several in.
stances, been responded to somewhat surprisingly
Several new members have replaced in a remark
able manner the old representatives, hitherto deemed
strong in the confidence, some of them
even in the affections, 'ot their constituents.
Several of the rejected at the last genoral
election have again been returned to Par-
liament. Foremost among these, the eminent
political economist, now wandering through the
United States, and whose voyage across the Atlan-
tic we regarded upon the instant as judiciously
well-timed, enabling the hon. gentleman to get out
of the way conveniently so as to allow of his name
being put forward during his absence in the event
of a dissolution. There is scarcely an individual, we
should imagine, who will now regret that Mr.
COBDEN has been elected by Rochdale as its repre-
sentative. His return to the scene of his former
triumphs may be regarded with almost unalloyed
complacency, now that his past errors have been
expiated to the full by his late protracted and
ignominious banishment from the Legislative
Chamber at Westminster. Bury has repented,
moreover, in the instance of the Right Hon. red-
tapist—Sir ROBERT'S second son, FREDERICK,
now once more that changeful borourgh's
representative. Mr. LAYARD still continues
to be inexorably denied admittance again
into the House of Commons —the City
of York confirming the rejection formerly resolved
upon by the borough of Aylesbury. By the bril-
liant success of his chivalrous and daring appeal to
the independent electors of Southampton, Mr.
DIGBY SEYMOUR has more than compensated him-
self for the withdrawn confidence of his former
supporters down at Sunderland. Although an
entire stranger tothe great Hampshire constituency
the hon. and learned gentleman has by an eloquent
avowal of the most liberal and enlightened
views, contrived to win golden opinions, indeed,
from that influential constituency—insomuch that,
at the close of the poll, he was not only at the head
of it, bat so unmistakeably first and foremost in the
race, that he was very nearly 150 ahead of the old,
tried, and favourite representative of the borough,
Mr. BRODIE WILLCOX, the eminent shipowner,
but actually upwards of 300 ahead of Mr. MATTHIAS
WEGUELIN, the governor of the Bank of England.
Besides the former members, who have thus
been restored to the House of Commons, after
a temporary banishment from it—there are various
new men who have taken the place of other M.P.'s
now in their turn summarily rejected. As, for ex-
ample, where the electors of Carlisle have chosen
Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S nephew as that right hon.
baronet's colleague in the representation of the
constituency ; and as in the instance again of the
border borough of Berwick, where the electors
have cordially and unhesitatingly welcomed as one of
their two new representatives Mr. RALPH ERLE, the
private secretary of the Chancellor of her MAJESTY'S
Exchequer. Very noticeable, indeed, among the
number of those who have failed to retain any seat
at all in the new Parliament are three or four
staunch Reformers, whose absence from the House
we shall probably have only too much cause for
regretting. Already we have, in these columns, ex-
pressed our sincere sorrow at those untoward cir-
cumstances which have led to the withdrawal,
from the list of the national representa-
tives, or the name of an earnest and in-
telligent recruit in the cause of the Ballot
like Sir ARTHUR ELTON, now replaced as the
second Liberal M.P. for Bath (thanks to the pique
and petulance of that peevish and perverse consti-
tuency) by Mr. WAY, an arrant, uncompromising
Conservative ! And still more earnestly have we
lamented the disappearance from the catalogue of
our veteran reformers in the House, of a gifted
champion of Reform such as General THOMPSON—
IateIy but now no longer M.P. for Brad-
ford—a name ever to be honoured as that
of :the witty author of so many logical, sen-
tentious, and convincing catechisms. Added to
these ex-members must now be mentioned in the
same category, we grieve to think, that honest
Liberal, late M.P. for Bodmin, Mr. JAMES WYLD,
whose last prominent appearance in the House of
Commons redounds so much to his honour as a
thoroughly independent politician--when -amidst
' the timidity, the shuffling, and the hesitation of
many reputed Reformers, he manfully appended to
Lord JOHN'S vague resolutions, pledging the

Liberal party to Nothing, a supplementary amend

ment, frankly proclaiming the advisability, or rather
the necessity, of the Ballot. Looking to the contests
nearer home, we have seen Sir SAMUEL PETO just
exactly 3,944 too many at Finsbury for poor ,il,lr.
Cox, who will now have ample leisure for the more
accurate study of the history of England. As for
Sir WILLIAM CARDEN, the wealthy London Alder-
man, late Lord Mayor, and still conceived to be all-
potent in press influence,Mr. MONK has eclipsed his
glory by nearly 200 votes as the successful candidate
for the representation of the city of Gloucester.
Yet more noticeable in its way is the failure, after
so many years of reiterated triumph down at
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, of the gallant
Col. FREESTUN, hitherto deemed to occupy, unoffi-

cially, the position, and to enjoy in consequence
the accruing prestige, of Esquire in attendance
upon Lord PALMERSTON. As for another gallant
retainer of that adventurous and chivalrous knight in
the Parliamentary lists—one of the most skilled and
brilliant fencers in the ranks of the Liberals in the

tournays of the Legislature, Mr. BERNAL Os

BoßNE—he has recently succumbed merely to the
fortunes of war, after a heroic and desperate fight
down at Dover, yielding only to the sheer force of
adverse circumstances. The unmistakeable victory
won at Dover by the two veteran Derbyite candi-
dates is attributed to the local influence exercised
at that seaport by her MAJESTY'S Government. Of
course, Mr. OSBORNE profited by nothing at all of
the same kind when he was returned upon the
occasion of the last general election, when Sir