Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1857-05-09

and the returns are all complete with the excep-
ton of very few from Irish counties, which can
not exercise any appreciable influence upon the
general result The writs arr made returnable on
the 30th instant but it is probable that Parliament
will not be summoned until week after that date
Some. days viii then elapse in swearing in the mem
bers and other matters of organization before any of
the real business of the session can commence. 1t
is now, we believe toerably certain that Mr. EVE
LYN DENIsoN, who has been a member of the
House of Commons since 1923, will be the new
Speaker and he viii probably be elected without op
position. Mr. Denison is ReforEer In his poll
tics He married daughter of the Duke of Port
land, and is in the ifty-seyenth year of his age
The last calculation respecting the character of the
new House of Commons is that it viii consist of
$50 Liberals and 275 Conservatives, including
among the latter forty-two gentlemen who profess
Liberal and Ministerial sentiments. On the whole,
of the elections so far determined the opposition
TO the Government have lost ninety-one members,
whilst the supporters of the Government have only
lost thirty-three. The Morning Post makes the
following statement:
The elections drawing to close, and within
the coming week. believe, t last of them will have
terminated The parties the les.fayorable to the Gov
constrained admi that there is majority
of from 10 to so in its favor whilst the sanguine adhe
rents OF Viscount Pamerston, in the clubs and in the
parts always desire the very lowest es
mate and to underrate rather than Para
mentary forces Too great confidence in the beginning
begets nertness, stlessness and slack attendance
Our advice to the supporters of the Government is to be
early and constant in attendance for though there is
enough and to spare Of majority, amounting at the
very lowest computation to TO- STILL till the temper of the
House is tried and its humor known it viii be safe
to the smallest risk"
The Times makes nett gain of forty 1.-TWO members,
~
The new Parliament will contain one hundred jand
seventy phe members who had not seat IN the
preceding one
The question is now mooted In some of the daily
journals whether the success of Ministers has not been
too great; whether the majority has not become so
large to be to certain extent too unwiedy, from
a diversity of opinions upon some points and from
a possible overweening sense of Its own importance?
Every part of the country and every portion of the
constituencies except the Irish counties have con-
trbuted to this Ministerial gain In these counties
the Priests have combined with the Conservatives,
through feeling of irritation at the loss of infu
ence under the government of Lord PALMERsToN.
The late election has differed from almost all pre-
ceding ones In the good humor which has almost
universally prevailed. Of course there have been
heats and personal hard words during actual con-
fct; but even close contests have been carried on
1t was exhibited, was very mitigated specimen in
comparison with former and even very recent cleo
lions The time at which Parliament viii assemble
ri be of difficulty in various respects For the
loment, political affairs of less Importance than
monetary. The raising of the bank interest shows
hat the country is in the midst Of an economical
Gficulty, though we believe that the first aspect
saused greater alarm than there was reason for.
The advance of the bank interest was occasioned
principally by desire to stop the drain of gold to
the Continent, which otherwise would have continu-
ed and perhaps increased. One cause of this drain
is probably the great Russian Railway Company
which is just organized, and is now endeavorng to
raise twelve millions sterling, the first instalment
of its capital of fortyfye millions sterling There
is not spare money enough in Paris, Germany, Hol-
land, or ST. Petersburgh to make up this amount.
The political state of the Continent is very little
changed from what it was last week. The only
news from France is that the Republican party
there has decided on Its candidates the approach
ing elections In the provinces it is. supposed that
Liberals Of local importance viii DC oosen In pref
erence to men more familiar to the nation, but
whose influence is more of moral than of practi-
cal character. In Paris the best men of the Re
publican party will be brought forward and the cleo
ton of one or two of them is nearly certain. The
presence of little opposition in the Legislative
Chamber Will produce great improvement IN the
character of that body. The candidates for Paris
will be Cavaignac, Carnot, Belmont Dufaure, Gui-
nard, and Goodchaux. In Lyons, Jules Faure will
be proposed, and probably elected. NJ. ALExAN-
DIRE DUMAS senior, the inexhaustible book maker,
was sent over to England by the Presse of Paris to
report on the late general election. The Assemblee
Rationale newspaper thus notices the mission Of
the UokunainouS nouetist:
The importance of the English elections has led the
Prssse dispatch the other side of the Channel polt
BAL extraordinary with instructions TO examine,
appreciate and understand every thing that takes place,
nd to reveal the to the fortunate readers OF that
surnal The incompatible statesman selected for this
Ugh mission is the author of Antony and of the Mos
ueaires,' the author of the Memories of Alexandria
Dumas who speaks all subjects with that inexhaus-
tble fecundy that has already filled some thousand vol
xlmes and threatens US with another thousand M. Al
exndre Dumas composes his political letters from
terals supplied by the old almanacs of London He will
avail himself of this source for many day to come"
Amongst the discoveries made by NJ. DUMAS arc
the following: "The Jewish question, that is to
SAY, the. question of liberty of the soul; and the
Sunday question, that is to say, the question of
liberty of the body, are-do not deceive yourself
about tat present the two great questions in
England. The questions concerning China and
Persia are only secondary and transitory.'
According to the Bund, the official journal of the
Swiss Confederation, the following are the condi-
lions on which DR.. KERN has been authorized to
treat at the conferences:
al Prussia is to acknowledge the complete indepen-
of mfr of IF