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and a similar compliment having been paid to the
High Sheriff, the proceedings terminated.

NOTTS (NORTH).
The nomination for this division took place on
Tuesdaf, at the Moot Hall, Mansfield.

Lord Robert Clinton and the Right Hon. John
Evelyn Denison (the Speaker), the late members,
were proposed.
No other person being proposed, the High Sheriff
declared Lord R. Clinton and the Right Hon. J.
E. Denison re-elected.
Lord R. CLINTON said it was the third time he
had been returned. He was at a loss to know why
Lord Derby should dissolve the Parliament, as he
considered the vote of the House of Commons did
not justify it ; every argument was against it, and
the whole country at that moment was against it.
(Hear.) He had had three opportunities of voting
on the subject of the ballot, and on each time he
had opposed it, as he did not think it would in any
way improve the position of the voter. As to the
war which had now commenced in Europe, he
blamed the Government for not being more firm,
for had they expressed themselves more decidedly
it was highly probable the war would have been
prevented.
The Right Hon. J. E. DENISON said that proba-
bly the first question that would present itself was
why were they assembled there ? In answer to
this they must refer to the speech from the throne.
That speech told them that Parliament had
been dissolved because, in the space of two years,
two successive Governments had failed to retain
the confidence of the House of Commons. He
ventured respectfully to doubt whether that was
an accurate account of what had taken place.
When Lord Derby was called upon to form
an Administration he informed her Majesty that
his supporters were in a minority in the House of
Commons—that he did not possess the confidence of
the house, and therefore he begged her Majesty to
reconsider her proposal. Her Majesty, after consi-
deration, called upon Lord Derby to undertake the
task, and he undertook it in the knowledge of the
strength of his party in the house. The House of
Commons enabled the Government to pass many
important measures, and when it gave a vote ad-
verse to two points in the proposed Reform Bill, he
(the Speaker) submitted that it was not a correct
account to say that that was a withdrawal of the
confidence of the House of Commons. If this had
been the case—if the House of Commons had in the
short space of two years twice granted and twice
withdrawn its confidence from two Administrations,
this would have been a cause of censure, if not of
reproach, to the House of Commons. The house
might then have been properly called a bad house,
and might have been dismissed and sent back to its
constituents. (Hear, hear.) But the case was not
so; it was part of his duty to become acquainted in-
dividually with the members of the house, and to
study its character collectively; and he could frankly
say that in his opinion the late house was not a bad
house, but a good House of Commons. (Cheers.) If
there was a question of the ability of the House of
Commons he would refer to the last debate on the
subject of reform, when the argument was sustained
on both sides with remarkable eloquence and power.
If there was a question of the industry of the House
of Commons he would refer to the constant atten-
dance of members, to their close application to the
private and public business of the house. If it was a
question of the judgment and prudence of the house
he would refer to its conduct at a moment of great
interest and of the utmost delicacy, the subject of
foreign affairs,when the knowledge of the Minister of
the Crown, and the experience and sagacity of Lord
Palmerston were allowed to be the exponents of the
opinion of the house, and the house showed that for-
bearance and discretion (qualities not always found in
large public assemblies) which excited the admiration
of Europe. But theywould ask him, how came it that a
house so constituted fell into disorder, and the ma-
jority were not able to give effect to their wishes ?
He would answer with great frankness that it, in his
opinion, was not the fault of the House of Commons;
it arose from want of accord in the leaders of the
house. In the oldest and noblest poem of the world
it was narrated how differences among leaders
brought destruction upon their troops, how quarrels
among the chiefs brought ruin on the Greeks, and
sent the souls of so many heroes to the Shades
below. The first two lines in the translation by
Pope tell the story :
" Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring
" Of woes unnumbered, Heavenly goddess sing."
Thus, what happened some thousands of years ago
at Troy happened last year in London, and to speak
the truth it was not confined to one side of the
house, for it would be remembered when the Re-
form Bill was introduced two Cabinet Ministers,
men of great experience and high character, left the
Government, and said that if the bill was passed in
the shape,it was introduced it would be destruction
to the constitution of the country. Her Ma-
jesty concluded the speech from the throne by
imploring the guidance of Providence, and that
she might have a Government holding the con-
fidence of the House of Commons. Every one must
wish that such should be the case, and he joined
heartily in the wish that the new House of
Commons might be as good as the last. He was
sure from what had taken place among them to-
day that this constituency was in favour of peace.
He hoped the war would be confined to Italy, and
not spread to other States. Referring to the ques-
tion of reform, he thought that the discussions
which had taken place in and out of doors tended
to show that no violent reform was wanted. When
a Reform Bill was brought forward a large portion
of those who had no share in the constituency now
would be enfranchised ; and he believed that when-
ever that question was brought into the House of
Commons it would not be difficult of adjustment.
(Cheers.)

A vote of thanks to the High Sheriff terminated
the proceedings.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN
THE NEW PARLIAMENT.

(From the London Gazette.)
CROWN OFFICE, APRIL 28.
Members returned to serve in the Parliament summoned
to be holden at Westminster, on the 31st day of May,
1859
Borough of Lambeth—William Williams, Esq. ; William
Roupell, Esq.