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LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 11, 1868.

Yesterday was a day of parliamentary formalities,

Mr, EVELYN DENNISON was elected Speaker of the
House of Commons for the fourth time, Sir DENIS
LE MARCHANT having pointed to Sir GEORGE GREY
and Mr. WALroLE as Proposer and Seconder—the
election, it need hardly be added after that, being
unanimous, or as the phrase is by acclamation. The
whimsical part of this ceremonial of electing the
Speaker of a new Parliament is—that the members
by whom he is chosen are there in the House at the
time informally—they themselves not having as yet,

of course, been sworn in 1 Their swearing in being, in
point of fact, impracticable until the Chair has been
occupied by Mr. Speaker. A commencement must
be made somewhere, however, and the custom of
Parliament is for the Members to take the

initiative by electing the Speaker, before
whom they are afterwards to take their seats after
being either sworn in or making that required sub-
stitute for an oath, an affirmation. By Monday or
Tuesday the swearing-in or affirming will have been
completed, and the Speech from the Throne will
then be formally recited before the Lards and Com-
mons in Parliament assembled. Meanwhile, the
proceedings were in several particulars shorn of
their glory by circumstances, some of them,
seemingly, quite in keeping with the hurry
and confusion of an abnormal interregnum
between two Ministries. Notwithstanding the
considerate promptness of the ex-Prime Minis-
ter, in resigning office for himself and his col-

leagues at the earliest opportunity in any way pos-
sible towards the close of the General Election, time
ran so short before the succeeding Cabinet could
be constructed completely, that the very Chancellor
himself bad to appear in his black gown as Judge
and to occupy for the first time his post of
dignity upon the woolsack, in that sombre raiment,
instead of in his flowing wig and majestic robes in

the midst of the gorgeously-attired group of the Lords
Commissioners. Sir WILLIAM PAGE WOOD, he was
still iu effect, and not as yet Baron lIATHERLEY of
Hatherley, in Gloucestershire. Equally as a matter
of necessity, the Speaker had to delay until this
afternoon appearing in his flowing wig and
robes of office as befits the Chairman of
of so august an assembly, the supremacy of

whose power within the walls of the House are sym

bolized during each sitting by the mace lying upon
a cushion on the table, and who is himself, by righ t
of that supremacy of his, the first Commoner in the
realm of England. Another circumstance peculiar
to yesterday as the day of the first meeting
of a new Parliament within a few days only
after an unlooked - for change of Government,
arose from the compulsory absence from
the scene of the Leading Members of the New Admi-

nistration. It was not simply the bust of BRUTUS,
the absence of which from the procession was notice-
able yesterday—it was BRUTUS himself, and with
him all the rest of his principal colleagues. Eager
and ignorant expectants thronged into Palace Yard
and into Westminster Hall, bent evidently upon cheer-
ing to the echo,' the new Premier and one other
at least of the Cabinet Ministers, a Cabinet Minister
who is not, it is true, in one of the highest offices of

State, but who, for all that, is second only in popular
estimation to Mr. GLADSTONE himself as heal of the
Government. People who knew no better, or who
forgot in their eagerness the fact that the recipients of
high office thereby cease ipso facto to be members of
Parliament until such time as their respective con-
stituencies have been again appealed to, looked in
vain for the care-worn face of one familiarly-spoken-
of some thirty years ago in those precincts of West-
minster--as " handsome GLADSTONE ;" and equally in
vain for the white head and the comely, bluff, JOHN
BULL features of the Right 1-lon. JOHN BRIGIIT,
President of the Board of Trade, but not M.P.
for Birmingham. Until the ordinary period for
the assembling of Parliament, that is in February
the new Ministers cannot possibly take their places
on the Treasury Bench, the present extraordinary
winter session being merely inaugurative, as rapidly
and as formally as possible of the newly-elected
Householders'- Parliament. And it is as well un-
der the circumstances that it should be so—full

opportunity being thereby afforded to the recently
installed Ministry, for the preparation, with every
conceivable care and deliberation, of the great
measure they and the majosty of the members of the