The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

THE NEXT PARLIAMENT,

We have already adverted to the confessed alarm whicl
the general character of the late returns to Parliament haE
excited among public men, and especially official men
whose hopes and fears ooze out through such journals a!
the Chronicle, the Times, and the Globe. For our owr
part we confess that we view the composition of the nem
Parliament with no such terror, but rather with satisfac-

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tion and with hope.
For, wherefore should•we fear? Even the "Liberal
claiming every doubtful ma

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for their own party, are obliged to admit that of men not
" Liberal" there will be more than 300 in the new House

of Commons. So that, in spite of all the treachery of the
last three years ; in spite of that "breaking up of the Con-
servative party," for which the Liberals, at the East Sur-
rey election, were ready to pass a vote of thanks to Sir
Robert Peel—there will still be found, in the parliament
of 1847, a stronger Conservative array than has existed in
any House of Commons since the passing of the Reform
Bill, with the single exception of that of 1841 ?
What could possibly show, with greater clearness, the
depth and extent of Conservative principles and feelings
among the mass of the people, than such a result, obtained
under circumstances so adverse ?
And then, as to the working of the new Parliament ?
Difficulties will doubtless arise, in such a strange state of

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things as the present ; but these difficulties we quietly
hand over to Lord John Russell and Sir Robert Peel,
saying, "Gentlemen, you have created these perplexities,
and you must deal with them." .

If constituencies like the Tower Hamlets, Nottingham,
Lambeth, and Oldham, return troublesome and dangerous
men, is not this just what we always foretold ? And can
we forget, that even in July last, Lord John Russell was
guilty of the inconceivable folly, or hypocrisy, of fabri-
cating and bringing in a bill for repealing the rate-paying
clauses in the Reform Bill, i.e., for allowing paupers
everywhere to vote ; the plain result of which would be,
that for one Feargus O'Connor now elected we should
have twenty, and the House of Commons, so chosen,
would speedily come into collision with all the other
powers existing under the old Constitution.
But, again, how will the new house work ? It will
work, we rather expect, to the extinction of Whiggism.
A new and far more democratic party is now rapidly form-
ing, chiefly on the ruins of the old Whig confederacy.
The Hobhouses, Foxes, Haweses, Macaulays, and Wyses
are expelled, to make room for Chartists and ultras of every
description ; and it is not to be imagined that these men,
once seated in the House of Commons, will sit there
quietly, to be whipped up for a government division once
a week, by Mr. Tuffnel and Mr. Bellew. They go there
to propose and to demand, and they will soon put it very
plainly to Lord John, whether he will " march forward
or not ?
Will he consent to their demands ? Or, rather, can he ?
For there is the broad fact, never to be forgotten, that one
full moiety of the house declines Lord John's leadership ;
and that the largest section of the four into which the
house will be divided is that of the old country party.
Neither Whigs, not Radicals, nor Peehtes, taken sepa-
rately, will be able to produce 200 votes—an array which
will exist under the eld blower, and index that do„,,