New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-07

bar kruptey. Notwithstanding bis painfdi exam
ME beth a, to c,use and effect several candids.e
tex The field at once, 20 soon o. MS ''0oo'e'
were known, seeking to plump themselves mt
biz seat. Dir. Montssu Chambers, wa
Was ousts1 at tie penulSmste efcoon ioi
votice wrcrg on the Sendsy Trsding and sandaJ
Beer bills, cor,ented to try bis luck ana tnc eegi
| Ct bis purse again. Alderman SslomoIn the is't
| Lord Mayor of London, ard an Israehte IN
deed, was another competitor. He once held the
seat for that b rough and CALAMITY bearded tne
So. aker IL his chair, making speech ih'ush mol
sworn in, and being removed BY the Sergeant az
| Arms in order to Try the right Of hebrew repre-
sentaticp. When be had to give up the contest ne
| resigned the me- mbership. Now. he probably
tb,tk, that the doors Of the House are getting
ready to fly open to welcome the Children OF ksrs'
10 the lopa.promited land ef Parliament. Mr..
Can pbell, also, son Of the Lord Chief Justice was
Wiling to take bis chance Of succession to the auc'
tioreer spd undertaken But the hopes Of all these
pubic. spirited gentlemen have been dashed BY the
| friends and constituents of Mr.. Townsend coming
forward aud paying his debts, aud 30 ancuiins the
bankruptcy Surely, friendship is something
| more than Name.
1t curious fact that the expense attendant
upon g ting into Parliament 10 materially greater
srce the Reform than it was in the old days OF the
| Rotten Borougbs This is owing 10 the muihph'
I eaton of voters. which creates larger amount OF
marketable commodities in that line, as well as an
INC ,ased average Of actual necessary expenses.
No man can hope for return from an kosi'n
borough, Lot to mention q county, who has not
Iorg purse Of his own, or a sufficient bold on the
'opg purses of Others TO make it an object to fhem
10 unite them in bis behalf When Mr.. George
Tn mp.on ran General Fox out Of the representa-
ton Of the Tower Hamlet, in lsi7, it was done BY
| subscription Of those who wished to place him In
Parliament. The expenses Of that election
amounted to several thousand pounds. Tne ex-
| pepdtures Of Sir William Clay aud Mr.. Ayrson,
the present incuubents, are represented as having
I been something incredible. Mr.. Roupell, the
Member for Lambeth, owns up to having expended
$4,000 on his last election there; and Mr.. Locke,
the Member for Southwark, Acknowledges the
! modest sum of $4,000 az hiA Investment in pubic
| life. It is believed, however, that those Gums
very inadequateiy represent the amounts actually
expended. The honest expenses, such as the
travelling exper ses of distant electors are very Sc
ritus, and aye compl Gated to any extent BY the
direct or indirect purchase OF votes. All tho at
tenpts of the House of Commons TO hinder this,
and al the examples which are made at the begin
mir of every Parliament, have hitherto failed Of
.uccess. Ard it is very difficult, doubtless, as
Co onel Sibthorp once It'd the House, to prevent
honorable gentlemen from buying kittens at a
guinea or FIVE pounds apiece, according to the
state Of the feline market.
We congratulate our public men, especially
those in Congress, on the freedom OF our Statute
Book from any such enactment as the one In ques
ton. and that
/ s-- they have not 20 ftsr
| Such lsrh and arbitrary measure here"
In fact, the public N ght thus be deprived Of tht
services Ct several valuable servants whose inca
pacity to manage their own af,irs was the fret oc
casion Of their tar ing their attention to the drec
| ton Of these of tie nation. We have known not a
| few cases in which, as soon as good fellow is
hopele,sy insolvent his friends have incontinentiS
begun to cast about for some post Of public trust
into which to bu. him by way of provision, thus
making the public Offices hind of Aims Houses or
Hospitals Of Incurabes. This is not much less the
case now, we appreheDd, than it was in the earlier
dsys when Cabinet councils we're not held over
every tidewaiseship and twopenny post'ofice;
| for, in fact, few persons seek for the National
Offices now who are competent to provide a
living for themselves by independent industry
or enterprise. And, even as to seats IN Congress,
at lea,t from the North, few persons are willing
& incur the inevitable inconvenience aud disturb
ace 70 their business who have any business to be
ncommoded. A too close scrutiny, therefore, into
the solvency Of our Collective Wisdom might DO Of
an evil example and Of bad effect on public business
The want of . general Bankrupt Law, indeed,
like that Of England, would prevent any such inter-
ference with the liberty Of the American citizen a.
is permitted with tina! of the British subject And
it will be remembered that the Bankrupt Law there
on, applies to parties in trade. Honorable gentle
men who live upon nothing year and who are supe
rior to the weakness of muddIing away their nc,m
in paying tter debts but who have never dissraeed
themselves by any species Of useful occupation. do
not come within the hardships Of this Selfdenying
Ordinance. His Grace the Duke Of Buckingham, it
is true, had his Most Noble pane gszetted 10 the
list Of barkrubts; but it was not as peer Of Par.
Lament, but 40 90 dealer in coal and timber"
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