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LOiVDON, 711URSDAY, NOT'. 5, 1868.

The incidents of the General Election are begin-
ning to number up before it actually commences.

At Blackburn the first life has been lost, a man

having been unhappily killed there in a conflict with
the police. At Tamworth the canvassers for Sir

HENRY BULWER have been disgracefully bludgeoned

by the supporters of Mr. JOHN PEEL, the latter
being 'apparently infuriated at the notion of any

such audacious interference with a close borough
hitherto delivered up to hereditary representation.
At Sheffield Mr. ROEBUCK is malignantly opposed by
the Trades' Unionists, and strenuously supported—

almost to a man—by the Publicans. At Preston
Lord EDWARD HOWARD has but just declared him-

self r. convert to the Ballot, like so many

other of the reforming candidates now appeal-
ing to the Liberal constituencies. At Green-

with—an extra-suburban borough, which had been
very judiciously prepared, almost from the first,
as a sort of padded mattress upon which to break
the dreaded fall of Mr. GLADSTONE in the midst of
his extraordinary and unprecedented performance,
a kind of double back summersault hitherto unit.

.empted, or even undreamt of, upon the political

trapeze of South West Lancashire—another Con-
servative candidate appears, side by side with Sir
lIENny PARKER, in the person of Earl STANHOPE'S
son and heir, Viscount MAlloN—with the wicked de-
sign, says the Star, of ousting, not only Mr.

DAVID SALOMONS, but with him the Leader of
the Opposition ! At Westminster, that in one
sense most unphilosophical and illogical of all
men now living, the great Philosopher and Logician,
Mr. JOINT STUART MILL, runs imminent risk of

losing his seat. And this solely by means of his
own wanton, wilful, and most preposterous esca-

pades. Such escapades, for example (to call them
by a mild name) as his pragmatical interposition be-

tween Mr. BOUVERIE and the electors of Kirmar-
flock with a view to the especially glorification of Mr
CHADWICK of the Sewers. Such as his malignant

persecution during so many months of ex-Governor
EYRE, whose principal guilt was the saving the life
and honour of every white woman in Jamaica at the
time of the negro insurrection, by his prompt and vi-
gorous stamping out of which he alone preserved that
splendid colony to the Crown of England. Or such
another escapade, again, of ?Jr. MILL'S as his back-
ing up Mr. BRADLAUGH'S candidature down at
Northampton, with a complimentary letter and a
ten-pound note, in flagrant defiance of the noto-
rious fact that Mr. BEADLAUGH'S free-thinking views
have been even more openly avowed than those
of Professor BEESLY, who only the other day pre-
faced one of his arguments with—" Assuming the
existence of a Supernatural Being !" At Lambeth
there is noticeable the simultaneous disappearance of
the two outgoing representatives—each (though for
very different reasons) being regarded as a failure
by that great metropolitan constituency ! Mr.
DOULTON being bowled out by an astounding
revelation of Belgian rebating to the tune of a
plum, quite as much as by his participation in the
Tea-room Plot, or by his entrance into the
Cave of Adullam ! Mr. HUGHES being, in his

turn, cold-shouldered out by the Lambzth con-
stituency, partly because of his total incapa-
city to realise the expectations formed of him
as a Parliamentary speaker (his total incapacity even
to catch the ear of the House, or once even, after

the precedent of Single Speech IlAmturoN, to cause
his voice to be respected), partly because of his im-
practicable independence as a thoroughly Liberal
representative, and not, as so many of the Lambeth
electors would fain have had him, far rather by pre-
ference, viz., a delegate of the small shopkeepers. ThA
former (Mr. DOULTON) COOL/ speak upon occasion to
the entire satisfaction of the taste if not of the opi-
nions of the House—he having a very gentlemanly
delivery, a good deal of dash, and a delightful
amount of self-possession. His colleague (Mr.
fluonEs), however, could not speak to our remem-
brance even upon one solitary occasion, without
strongly impressing his hearers with a sense that the
author of " TOM Brown's Schooldays" bad 103 t all
vigour at once of thought and of expression, and
had long since settled down to a deal level of
intellectual feebleness. Yet for all that—Mr.
HuonEs is (as we hope), Mr. DOULTON is not (as we
cannot regret),likely to find elsewhere than at Lambeth
a more believing awl a more confiding constituency.
A tolerable speaker cm be spared in Mr. DOULTON,
but the country can hardly afford to lose the services,
once it has been able to appreciate them, of a
thoroughly liberal-minded and thoroughly indepen-
dent representative such as Mr. THOMAS HUGHES—a
consistent and enlightened reformer, who if
only he will refrain in future from attempting
to make speeches that must otherwise cause him
to settle down permanently into the position
of a recognised bore, we shall gladly see
(yesterday M.P. for Lambeth) to-morrow M.P.
Frome. Another disappearance from the House be-
sides Mr. DOULTON'S, not a man in it will be disposed,
for one instant, to regret, meaning that of Mr. RALPH
EARLE—sometime MT. DISRAELI'S confidential
Private Secretary, but of late his flagrantly malig-
nant, but contemptuously disregarded assailant.
Nothing more utterly revolted the good feeling of the
House, and this let it be said, quite equally both
sides of it, than the spectacle presented to view upon
each occasion upon whirl Mr. RALPH EARLE violated
all its sense of decorum, and outraged all its love for
the common and decent proprietks of civilized life,
by attacks upon his Chief, as feeble and futile in
themselves, as they were evidences of a personal and
deadly hatred. The recurrence of " scenes" like those,
the House cannot but be heartily rejoiced to be well
rid of. At Nottingham we cannot but hope that Mr.
BERNAL OSBORNE may contrive to hold his own in
defiance of all opposition, for, in one sense, we
" could better spare a better man" among our
Liberal politicians—the one wag of the House
being, in a manner, indirpenEible. Not after
the manner of Mr. JonN lIALDY, any more than of

old after the manner of Colonel SIBTHORPE, who was
at any rate the " cause of wit in others" by reason of
his very fatuity—not after the fashion even of that
famous Sir BOYLE ROCHE, who, according to tradi-
tional report, was, in his d iy, the unconscious jester
of the Legislature—Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE has, in his
fooling, as much method as ever HAMLET had in his
madness. As a rule he jokes on the right side—
right, according to our idea, of course, namely,
on the side of Liberalism. Re raises a laugh,
but always a good humoured laugh, against the
enemies of popular advancement. Whatever is im-
practicablejrivolous, or contemptible, he " spots" upon
the instant with a je3t : his quips and his quiddi-
ties rattling like well-aimed smell shot about the ears
of hisantagonistsat every discharge fired off by him as

the most skilled of our Parliathentarysharp-shooters.
in the midst of the cannonading of the great guns of
debate, the rattling fusillade of thatsame sharpshooter
always comes to us exhiliratingly. And, therefore, if
only as a frequent enlivener of the more serious
discussions of the Legislature, Mr. OSBORNE'S
familiar presence, it is to hoped, may be recognised
among the new members elected, or rather among
the old members re-elected, to serve, as long as it may
contrive to run out the allotted seven years of its
existence, upon the assembling of the Eighth Parlia-
ment of Queen VICTORIA, down at Westminster.

THE Presidential election has not, as was at one

time thought probable, terminated in a close contest.
General GRANT has been made President by a
triumphant majority, both of the Electoral
Cogliege and the votes of the people. Owing
to the system of -double election, it is quite
possible for the President of the United
States to be returned by a very small
preponderance of votes. The people choose their
representatives at the Electoral College, and these
elect the President. There is no divided represen-
tation in the College ; the party which has the
majority in any State sends all the deputies for that
State. It is therefore easy for one side which
has a small advantage over the other in one
or two of the most important States, such as
Ohio or Pennsylvania, to determine the contest
against hostile forces of nearly equal number. But
General GRANT is not in this way the representative
of but half the nation. He has been chosen by a
large majority of the Electoral College, and
he has secured a vast preponderance of the
popular suffrages. In some States the Repub-
lican victory was gained more triumphantly even
than in 1864 ; and though in others their party has
fallen off, the whole result chews that General GRANT
is as much the President of the people as was Mr.
LINCOLN. Nor are the issues now determined of less
importance than those before the country in 1864.
Then it was a question whether the great struggle
should be abandoned on the eve of victory ; now the
American nation has been called upon to decide
whether the results which are beginning to manifest
themselves shall be discarded for a policy which
might lose all that had been gained. In 1864 the
United States determined still to support the great
principle of union and the abolition of slavery;
in 1868 it has been resolved that the
system of reconstruction—whatever may be its
disadvantages—shall not be exchanged for a policy
which is partially undefined, and, so far as it is defined,
is in the highest degree dangerous. The result
cannot but be gratifying to Europe. In the person
of General GRANT the Americans will be governed
by an untried politician, but by a man of the highest
integrity, and of the greatest good-will to his fellow-
men. The future of the country is not yet unclouded,
all danger has not been overcome ; but the large
majority of the Republicans proves that this triumph
is as much as possible the triumph of the American
people; that one party and one policy must rule; and
that any renewal of the disastrous appeal to force is
all but impossible.
Various causes have contributed to this renewed
acquisition of power by the Republicans. Their can-
didates were excellent " tickets ;" those selected by
the Den ecrats were at best indifferent. Mr. SET-
morn was not the best of the men from whom the
Democratic choice had to be made ; and it turns out
that General BLAIR was well-nigh the worst. lie is

a good soldier, but a general who fought on the side
of the North during the war is not a promising DemQ-
cratic candidate. Moreover, he has shewn himself the
most imprudent of politicians. He has advocated ex-
treme reactionist doctrines, and has done much to alarm
the people as to the consequences of a change of policy.
General GRANT, on the other hand, is simply the most
popular man in America. His candidature has again
revived the memory of, the termination of the war,
and has enabled the Republicans to rely upon
the triumph of the past as well as the issues of the
present. Then the Democrats were not prudent in their
declarations of policy : with respect to the South
their programme was in part one of dangerous
reaction, and their advocacy of repudiation lost
in the East as much as it gained in the West.
The course taken by their opponents was generally
prudent, even when it was not high-principled.
These considerations, however, could not of
themselves have brought about the over-
whelming defeat of the Democrats. The
policy of their opponents has evidently by
far the greater hold upon the people; and for the
world at large it has one most important recom-
mendation—it is a continuous policy, and will be
attended by none of the consequences which might
arise from a doubtful future. It would have been
impossible to predict the results of such a change as
a Democratic victory would have produced.

Mn. BRIGHT is a good hater. There is nothing
that he has ever hated so heartily as the minority
clause. We do not accuse him of hating it because
it has involved him in the turmoil of a contested
election, for his seat is as safe as Mr. DfsnAELfs, and
the generosity, or rather let us say the justice, of his
constituents will provide that it shall cost
him nothing. We believe that he honestly
dislikes the clause because he believes it to
be thoroughly opposed to the spirit of the Con-
stitution, an innovation in the worst sense of the
word. His very strongly manifested dislike shews
that there is even in the great Radical leader a hidden
stratum of Toryism which dislikes new ideas, and
fights against them as personal enemies. We have
never been able to sympathise with him in this crypto-
Conservatism. We believe that the representation of
min• oritiesis. a just and proper thing, and although the
presentthree-cornered constituencies are but a clumsy
andimperfect means of securingthat principle, exceed-
ingly clumsy and imperfect when compared with Mr.
HARE's plan—it is the best that we have, and is
better than nothing. However, we are too near the
general election to discuss it at present. What can-
didates and electors want just now is, not abstract
principles, but concrete facts—not political economy,
but the state of the poll. It will, therefore, be
interesting to inquire how far Mr. BRIGHT'S enemy
will help or hurt him and his party in the approach-
ing fight.
Taking the last general election as our basis,
we find that there were seven counties which
returned three members, viz., Berkshire, Bucks,
Oxforcl,Hertfordshire, erefordshire, Cambridgeshire,
and Dorsetshire. The three first-named constituencies
sent nine Conservatives to the Lower House, whilst
each of the four others was represented by one
Liberal and two Conservatives. It will thus
be seen that in the counties the Liberals
have everything to gain and nothing to lose
by the restrictive vote. In Berkshire, Bucks, and
Oxford the Conservatives have been obliged to with-
draw one of their men, leaving a Liberal to be
returned without opposition. This arrangement does
not seem to have satisfied the Liberals of Berkshire,
who are now fighting for two seats. In two other
comities—Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire—the
Liberals are able not only to hold their own, but are
contesting for an extra seat. Thus, before the battle
commences, the Liberal party will win from their

opponents, without the expense of a contest, three
votes—counting six on a division.
Turning to the borough constituencies, a different
scene is presented. Although the Ministerialists have
to adopt the inevitable and drop one of their men in
the counties, the Opposition are determined to con-
test every seat in the boroughs. In 1865 there was
only one town which returned more than two mem-
bers,,the City of London. Now, however, five other
towns have had an extra representative given to them,
viz., Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, and
Glasgow. Three years ago seven Liberals and three
Conservatives were elected by these places. Now
there are thirty candidates for the nineteen seats,
eighteen of whom swear allegiance to Mr. GLADSTONE
and twelve to Mr. DISRAELI. London will pro-
bably be the first to go through the ordeal of an
election with the minority clause. In this borough
the Reform Bill has not effected a very great increase
in the number of voters, and by adding 2,000 to
the number on the register in 1865, we shall be
pretty near the mark. This would make 20,000
electors, of whom probably two-thirds would
vote. Supposing the Liberals to be as nume-
rically strong as they were at the last contest,
and that the Conservatives were in an equally for-
tunate position, there is no reason why the four
Liberals should not be returned, especially if the
electors act up to the instructions issued by the
Liberal committee. In 1865 the four Liberals polled
an average number of 6,837 votes, while their
opponents could not muster more than an
average of 4,141. After substracting one-third
from the larger number (in consequence of
the operation of the minority clause), the
Liberal party would still have a majority of 417.
During the last three years they have gained largely
on the register, and this year they have succeeded in
placing on the list the major part of lodgers. Looking
at these facts, and considering that the Conservatives
of the City have never had the splendid organisation
which has always existed among their opponents, we
believe that the return of four Liberals is a matter
only of management. . . .

The next constituency which will create the greatest
amount of attention is the hardware capital. Not-
withstanding Mr. BRIGHT'S anathemas, there
is no reason why he should not have two
Liberal colleagues in the representation of
Birmingham. The Conservatives are running two
candidates, more in the hope that this will
prevent the splitting of votes, than in the belief
they will carry their two men. Here, again, the
organisation of the Liberals is near to perfection ;
and perhaps it was no idle boast of the chairman of
the Liberal Association when he stated a few days
ago that the lowest Liberal would be 4,000
ahead of the highest Conservative. In Man-
chester the Ministerialists will stand a chance
of returning the minority representative,
although their opponents are doing their utmost to
return Mr. ERNEST JONES in conjunction with the
sitting inembers-Mr. BAZLEY and Mr. JACOB BRIGHT.
The Conservatives of Liverpool, having gained
largely on the recent revision, are likely to
return Mr. GRAVES and Lord SANDON, leaving
the Liberals the choice between Mr. MASSEY
and Mr. RATImONE. Remembering that at
the last election Mr. BEECROFT, the Conserva-
tive candidate, was returned at the head of the poll
for Leeds, we believe that the fight in that town will
be a close one. The retirement of Mr. BEECROFT
has doubtless injured the Conservative cause, but the
candidature of Sir ANDREW FAIRBAIRN after Mr.
BAINES and Mr. CARTER had been chosen by the
Liberals to fight the battle will more than counter-
balance the division which was at one time
imminent among the Ministerialists. The
remaining constituency is Glasgow, where
three Liberals and one Conservative have appeared.
It is not believed, however, that the Conservatives
will make a serious attempt to obtain the minority
seat; the Liberals will, therefore, virtually walk over
the course. It is not to be denied that among the
many interesting contests at the forthcoming election
none will excite greater interest than the unicorn
constituencies.

We learn from the C'harch News that in response
to an anonymous letter, the Archbishop of York wrote to
the curate of St. Martin's, Scarboro', forbidding him to omit
the Litany from morning prayers, concluding his letter with
—" This is the command of your Bishop." It is stated that
for several years it has been the practice at York Cathedral
during Advent to say the Litany as a separate afternoon
service.
The Archbishop of Olmutz having refused to deli-
ver to the civil authorities the registers of the ecclesiastical
matrimonial tribunal, has been condemned to pay a fine of
10,000 florins (Xl,000), and threatened with a further fine of
20,000 florins if ho does not comply. The same archbishop
was previously fined 7,000 florins. Although the ecclesias-
tical revenue of the see amounts to the large sum of 200,000
florins (or £20,000), it will hardly suffice to bear the burden
of these progressive fines.
The Osservatore Romano of the 27th ult. has an
article entitled " The Conversion of the Anglicans," which
rejoices by the journals of London
aod Berlin
at
Apostolic letter to the Pro-
ltoto the
tphuobli rciotpyo,s given
Pro-
testants. The Osservatore says that the Morning Post and
Times in so doing performed the office of Baalam in mani-
festing the will of God, without wishiug or knowing it. The
Osservatore, in support of its prediction of a speedy unifica-
tion of the Anglican and Roman Churches, quotes trium-
phantly the lately expressed opinions of Drs. Pusey, Leo,
Littledale, Forbes, and the Bishop of lowa in the United
States.
The Guardian says there are, of course, numerous
rumours as to the expected successor to the sea of Canter-
bury ; but it is not likely anything can be settled before the
return of her Majesty from Scotland. It is guessed that
the Queen may desire either the Bishop of Lichfield or
the Bishop of London ; the Premier, the Bishop o
Oxford or Bishop of Rochester. Cambridge men, if
the absence of Bishop Selwyn in Now Zealand stands in
the way, would be gratified by the promotion of the Bisha
of Ely, with Dean Goodwin for his successor.
Mr. Gladstone was recently appealed to with re-
spect to the candidature of Mr. Samuelson, present member
and one of the Liberal candidates for Banbury. He re-
plied as follows:—" I fear that 1 have no title to take
any part as between gentlemen of the Liberal party
who may bo competing for the same seat in Parliament;
but, as your inquiry relates to matters of fact, 1 beg to
state that Mr. Samuelson certainly voted for the motion
made by me in relation to rating, on"which hung the issue
of that portion of the provisions of the Reform Bill, and
that I fully believe in Mr. Samuelson's loyal adherence to
the principles of the Liberal party."
RAPID VOYAGE. —The sailing ship Tantallon
Castle, Captain Howson, of Messrs. Donald, Currie, and
Co.'s Castle line of packets between England and Calcutta,
has just arrived at London from Calcutta Sand Heads in
78 days. The passage out was made in 80 days, and the
whole voyage has been completed in six months 18 days,
including 42 days detention in the Hooghly ; the fastest
voyage yet made. The Tantallon Castle is now 3} years
old, and has just completed her fifthvoyage between Eng-
land and Calcutta.
FATAL ACCIDENT BY FIRE TO AN OFFICER.—
Yesterday an inquest was held at Penton-place, Wal-
worth, on the body of Mr. Hollows, aged 40 years, a
lieutenant on half-pay. On Tuesday night week deceased
was crossing the room when his night shirt was set on
fire by a rushlight. He was removed to the hospital,
where he died on Monday. The jury returned a verdict
of accidental death by fire.
TUNNELLING BENEATH THE MERSEY. Two
schemes for tunnelling beneath the Mersey and forming a
railway communication between Liverpool and Birken-
head, and thereby connecting the docks at those places
with each other and with the general railway system of
the country, are now under the consideration of the
Mersey Dock Board. The first of these schemes is for
constructing a tunnel from the west-end of Birkenhead
to the north end of Liverpool, and the second for a
tunnel between Rock Ferry, on the Cheshire side, and the
south end of Liverpool. The latter scheme was laid
before the board yesterday in a communication from
Messrs. Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co., of London, who
stated that a bill would be introduced next session, that
the undertaking would cost £900,000, and would embrace
a double lino of rails—one for passengers and another for
goods.
DEATH THP.OOGH Cmonoroam. —On Tuesday
evening an inquest was held at Leicester on the body of
Ann Oldacres, aged 33. The deceased, who was the wife
of James Oldacres, a farmer, of Churchover, near Rugby,
had died the same afternoon under the influence of chloro-
form, which had been administered to her by her own re-
quest by Dr. Marriott prior to the extraction of several of
her teeth by a dentist named Mr. 11. T. Kirby. The jury
returned a verdict that the deceased died from the as mi-
nistration of chloroform, but entirely exonerated Dr. Mar-
riott or Mr. Kirby from all blame, being satisfied that more
than usual precautions had been taken.

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