The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-24 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

CONSERVATIVE NEGLIGENCE.--According to our pro-
mise, instead of pnblighing the names of the Conservative
minority of Thursday upon Mr. Praed's motion, we give
a list of the Conservative Absentees upon. that occasion,
nailuhting to no less a number than SlxTy-THREE:

Attwood, M.
Colonel
Bateson Sir R.
Belfast
Bruce, C.
Bulkely, Sir W.
Burrell, Sir C.
Cartwright, W.
Chaplin, T.
Conolly, Colonel
Copeland, Alderman
'enpps,
Dottin, A. R.
East, J. B.
Estcourt, T. G. B.
Entwisle, J.
Fleetwood, Y. H.
liorbes, Lord
Gevv, Sir W.
Gou'burn, Sergt. (Circuit
Green. T. G.
liaise, J.
'Handley, H.
Hanmer, Sir J.
Hill, Lord Arthur
Hope,-Sir A.
Ingham, R.
Kavanagh, T.
Knatchtmll, Sir Edward
Kerr, D.
Knox,.Hon. J. J.
Lefroy, A.
The constituents of these noblemen and gentlemen will
be kind enough to keep their eves upon their representa-
tives, for although no doubt many of the members named
in this list have paired off—attendance is the thing-'—con-
stant and assiduous attendance, and that for the whole of
the evening. Recollect the different effect produced upon
the success of a measure carried by a majority
.of eight or
ten in a house of six hundred and forty members (who may
be present); and that created by a majority such as was
recorded on this very Thursday night now in question,
of one hu:Wred and fifty-seven in a house of one hundred
and sixty-seven. We shall continue to publish similar
lists upon every division.4john

Lygon, Hon. Colonel
Mandeville, Lord
Man Lora R.
Morfan, C. M. R.
Nee (I, J.
Noel, Sir G.
Pkieral
Owen, H. 0.
Peel; Right Hon. W. Y.
Pelham, J. C.
Penrinldocke, J. H.
Polhill, Captain
PollOck, Sir F.
Powell, ColOnel
Bickford, W.
Scott, Lord John
Shaw, F.
Sheppard, T.
Stanley, Lord
Stanley, E.
Stewart, J.
Tapps, G.
TOivnshend, Lord J.
TUrnei, T. F.
Vaughan. Sir R.
Vivian, J. E.
Walter, J.
Wilbraham, Hon. R. B.
Wilmot, Sir E.
Wilson, H.
Worcester, Marquis of

On thii subject the Horning Post of Tuesday says:—
We published yesterday under the head of "Conservative
Negligence" a list of members of the House of Commons,
elected by conservative constituencies, whom we sup-
posed to have been absent on the division upon Mr.
Pried's motion, of Thursday last, to amend the Municipal
Corporations Bill. This list we derived from the columns
of our excellent conservative contemporary, the John
Bull, to which journal, in pursuance of our usual practice,
we fairly acknowledged our obligation. In this list it
appears there were some inacuracies, and those which
.have been distinctly brought to our knowledge, by the
condescension of the members of parliamint immediately
interested in their correction we have this day corrected.
In the main, however, we believe the list to be accurate.
We knOW of no inaccuracies in it, with the exception of
those we have recorded. It is scarcely necessary for us
try say that our colums are open to any well-authenticated
contradiction of any part of our statement.; but we cannot
receive from any authority whatever a vague and. general
impeachment of its accuracy. The conservative people
of England, in whose name we speak, have a right to
.expect that gentlemen, calling themselves conservative
members of parliament, will not be absent from their
places in the House of Commons when important ques-
tions are to be decided. And we frankly and distinctly
say that we will never screen members of the House of
Commons, be they whom they may, who disappoint this
reasonable expectation. We learn by this list that there.
are men in the House of Commons who ate too indolent
or too lukewarm to give their attendance when questions
are to be decided upon which the bulk of their conserva-
tive fellow-subjects feel a lively interest. To such men
We refuse our sympathy and our support. We feel that
they.are cumberers of the ground, and it is our duty to
tell them that they are so. We know that they occupy
the places which, but for them, would be occupied by
more diligent aed valuable persons, and it is our duty to
the conservative cause to admonish them, that, if they
will not henceforth be more industrious and effective than
they have been, the best thing which they can do for that
cause is to retire altogether from public life. The day
has its business; and it is business of such a nature as
cannot be discharged by sluggards. The motion of Mr.
Praed was defeated by a majority of only '26. It was a
motion in which every man in England whose feelings
are not embarked in the movement must have warmly
sympathized. And yet upon this occ:ision there were
sixty conservative members of the House of Commons
absent. Had these sixty, or half of their number, been
present bow important a triumph would have been
achieved for the conservative cause I
- • Men ought not to take seats in the House of Commons
in times like the present in the idea of enjoying their
()Hum corn dignitale. The pledge of hard service and
Close attendance is iinplied,in the very fact of their be-
coming candidates to represent any portion of their
fellow-subjects, and the stern coercion of the whig and
radical press compels the members on their side of the
house to redeem the pledge. We have been too gentle
in this matter, and have thus permitted our opponents to
gain an advantage. But the error must be amended.