The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-20 00:00:00

A SEAT WANTED.

Many good men will be left out in the cold when
the House meets. The Premier will be without his
law officers, and on the Opposition bench Mr. Milner
Gibson VII be missed. Men of all parties must
regret that the services of statesmen are thus lost to
the country, Perhaps the loss of Mr. Massey is as
much to be deplored as any. He has been
chairman of committees, and since that time has
made the acquaintance of Indian finance,
Before long a seat may be found for him ;
byt the present state of things shows that the return
pr some of the best men of a party is risked by send-
mg them to fight hard battles, while candidates of
moderate ability and sometimes immoderate incom-
petency are sent to Parliament by the simple process
of an introduction to a constituency by a lord-lieu-
tenapt or other local magnate. The Liverpool
electors have not forgotten the condescension of the
handsome Lord Sandon, when he kissed the fish-
wife, and his mode of canvass is fully justified by the
result.
oattOllT9l3 TRtTSTEEg AND THE ELECtiOall
itere are three towns in England which, so far ih
ecclesiastical purpose are concerned, are in the hands
of Simeon's trustees. 'nese are Bath, Cheltenham,
and Colchester. In all of these ;the Low Church clergy
have great influence ; and in ;lath, Mr. Hobart
Seymour left the Liberal pari,;. whom he
usually supports, in order to join with the other
clergy
opposing Mr. Gladstone's irist church
policy. Nevertheless, in each instance, not only id
the Conservatives fail to hold their own, but actually
lost the seat which they formerly held. The three
boroughs used to return three Conservatives and
two Liberals and they now return five Liberals.

MEMBEILS ERTURNED.
The poor Reform League is beaten everywhere.
Its very head is without a seat. Its working men
are literally nowhere in the polling returns ;
so that after all its trouble to get a Reform
Bill, it is not to be rewarded. Even pulling
down the park railings has failed to win patronage
for its candidates. This shews very clearly that those
who anticipated that the new House of Commons
would consist of a different class from its prede-
cessors have been grievously mistaken. The " great
governing families," as they were called, are not,
even under household suffrage, without influence.
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He spoke of their being on the popular side ;
of their power and influence; and of the
gratitude with which the nation should repay
them. All this, of course, was intended to
secure the return of the Marquis of Hartington.
But the right hon. gentleman gave utterance to A
thought which will be generally echoed when he
deplored the day when the aristocracy would set
itself steadily against the popular voice.

THE WORKING MEN'S CANDIDATE FOR STOKE.
There is a curious story about Mr. Hartwell, the
retiring candidate for Stoke. He attributed his
retirement to the fact that he had not money to go
to the poll with. Further, it was a well-known fact
he had not votes. But even lower reasons than this
are suggested to the uncharitable who read the
report of Mr. Hartwell's application to Alderman
Besley, at the Guildhall. Mr. Hartwell told at first
a very plausible story, from which nothing to his
detriment could be inferred ; but without sug-
gesting any motive for the offence against him of
which he was complaining. But the alderman told
him he was mystifying something, and he had not
told the whole matter. Mr. Hartwell then was
obliged to raise the curtain a little higher; so he gave
the following story to the world. He was a candi-
date for the borough of Stoke-upon-Trent, and at
the last moment he found that he could not pay
the expenses of a contest. He then received
an offer of £2BO to pay his expenses if he would
retire. That sum was the estimated amount
of the expenses he had incurred in London and at
Stoke. He did not, of course, ask anything for him-
self, but only for the expenses of the election. There
was a joint agreement, of about twenty lines, which
stipulated that they were to pay the money to him,
and they had not done so. They had received it,
and although he had waited four hours at his office
for them, they never came back. The story still has
much of the improbable.about it. But if these are
our " working men's candidates," the less of thenk
the better.