The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-27 00:00:00

measure illustrated his patical WOWS by the same
evidences of daring and sagacity which have upon
the " tented field" rendered his military carter
illustrious. The latter is so cordial and earnest
a champion of his views within the House of
Commons that—in the matter of the Ballot for
example—he is the seconder of the annual motion
of Mr. HENRY BERKELEY. Such are the two
First. Members returned to the New Parliament
at Westminster by the Liberal electors of West-
minster. Let us regard the circumstance, again,
as an augury of success to the interests of Re-
formers generally. Let us accept it as a good
omen of the sentiments predominating among the
new members returned to the popular branch of
the ure by the really " free and indepen-
dent" constituencies.

They say (those garrulou's talkers, the On, the
Quidnunc,s, the Gobemouches, dealers in scandal
and mongers of canards) that M, ALEXANDRE
DUMAS is on his way to this country, with
the intention of flu n ish ing an account
of our English Elections to the columns of the
Presse—the Times of the Frenchmen ! He had
better make haste, or he will run the risk of hav-
ing no more story to tell than CANNING'S Needy
Knife-grinder. JOHN BULL has his sturdy
shoulder to the wheel—of Fortune l—and wig
make quick work of it. Already, since the disso-
solution of the old Parliament, the earth has
turned upon its axis to the extent of merely some
four or five revolutions—and we have actually
returned upwards of a hundred representatives to
the new Parliament ! To be precise, we believe,
there are now exactly 119 candidates already re-
turned without opposition. And out of these there
are seventy nine Liberals and forty Conserva-
tives. Several of the latter, however,
having distinctly declared in favour of Ministers,
we may divide these 119 otherwise rather differ-
ently—giving some 25 or 30 as Deibyites, and
some 80 or 90 as Palmerstonians. So much for
what has already occurred. From which, what
may hereafter transpire can, of course, to a cer-
tain extent, be pretty readily predicated.
It is a somewhat noticeable circumstance, in
the present General Election, that no less than
three canspicuous representatives in the last Par-
liament appeal to their constituencies for re-
election to the New Parlianviat—briefly, by letter,
as invalids, unable in any way to participate in
the struggle for admission within the walls of the
Legislature. Viscount EBRINGTON has not sued
in vain for re-acceptance by his old supporters in
Marylebone. Similar success, we doubt not, will
in due course attend the application of a like
character made to the electors of Buteshire by
the Right Hon. STUART WORTLEY, ger MAJESTY'S
Solicitor-General. It remains to be seen whether
the same good fortune will follow the manly
though supplicatory epistle despatched to the
men of Manchester from Rome by a much more
remarkable man than either, but a man, at the
same time, it must be allowed, of nit by any
means such stable reputation. Mr. BRIGHT,
and, with him, his Right Hon. Colleague Mr.
MILNER GIBSON, having drawn upon themselves
the opposition of those Liberals in the constituency
who cannot find it in their hearts to follow them,
blindfolded by infatuation, through all the fens of
folly, and all the quagmires of inconsistency through
which they have been stumbling and floundering
in the wake of some nameless ignis fatwu,s of a fan-
tastic political hallucination. They, at least,
should be the very last to complain of the "divi-
sion in the camp" which their own eccentricities
have alone originated. Had the Manchester School
generally, but more particularly the principal
leaders of it, Mr. COBDEN, and Mr. BRIGHT, and
Mr. GIBSON remained true to the popular inte-
rests they themselves at one time so nobly advo-
cated—they must have continued to this day in
the ran of the great popular movement. As it
is, they have either fallen back into the rear or
have straggled out upon either flank, according to
the whim of the moment, to indulge in some
eccentric escapade. Foremost still among the
leaders of that Movement remains to the last the
Chief of the Whig Reformers. Nu longer tha
Lord JOHN of "Finality." Instead of that, talk-
ing boldly once more for improvements of all
kinds—social, political, economic, educttional,
financial, ecclesiastical ! And, beyond this even,
like POPE'S depreciator—" hinting " fresh change
—and " hesitating " even the Ballot ! Among
all these choppi 'Ts and changings, twists and turns,
it behoves all practical Reformers to keep their
" weather eye" well open, just now, in the various
Liberal Constituencies !