New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-15

III o,.;op He " now 81 years old, and has Drawn
co, roo "A Speaker beside ET2,OO0 az pennoner.
Thns in fact, his four years occupancy OF the
sneakers chair has cost 100000, and he las son to
whom the pension will descend for life also.
In 1899 at the age of As Mr.. Charles Shaw Lefevre,
member for North Hampshire and the only man OF
independent property who had been elected for nearly
a century was placed in the Speakers char, whchh he
has Just quitted-on pension, with peerage as W.
count Eyersley of Heckfeld, IN the County OF South
nmpton-after eighteen years OF good service. lie
was elected on the Liberal interest," MIR. Henry
Cadmium an Cabinet Minister Of Peels, being his
opponent. The votes were 3l7 to ~. Mr. Leievre
wbo,e ameny Of manner and gentle courtesy were
pleasinr contrasts TO Mr.. Abercromby's rough and
Iyusone bearing, reelected without opposition, by
the Parliaments of 1884, 1917 and 1852 Atthe age of
g. he enters the Lords and may probably be invited
ere long to take administrative office under Palmer
ston, Russell or Clarendon. In politics he belongsto
the extreme Liberal party.
We arrive, lastly, at the election for Mr.. Lefevfes
successor II is far from certain that the Opposition,
confessedy weaker than the Ministry would run the
nix Of showing that weakness by rushing into dlvi-
sion on the election of Speaker Nor do they appear
to have any likely candidate on hand. Two or three
have been spoken Of and the most likely of those are
Sir Frederic Thesiger and Mr.. Walpole. The former
of these has been Attorney General, under the Ad-
ministrations Of Peel and Derby, and narrowly missed
the chance of being made Chief Justice Of the Com
mon Pleas; the vacancy having occurred within few
hours after his party ceased hold Office. good law
yer and an eloquent advocate, Sir Frederic Thesger
has vet the disadvantage of being too old for the
Speakership. He is 63 years old, at which age
Abercromby and Lefevre retired.
l1o TorxyD midi
would be Mr. Spencer Horatio Wapole man only
fifty years old with the highest repute for University
performances an excellent lawyer and, Home Sec
rotary, the most popular member of the late Derby
Disraeh Cabinet. Were he candidate on any other
than the merest party claims, Mr.. Walpole would run
strong chance Of election so highly is he valued
public and personal grounds. On the Palmerston
side three gentlemen have been spoken Of.
Mr.. Henry Fitzroy, son of the late and brother las
well as heir presumptive of the present Lord South
ampton is exactly fifty years old. lie entered Para-
ment at the age of twenty-four and has great knowl
edge of the forms and precedens Of the House. He
| has been Lord of the Admiralty well Under
Secretary of State and was elected Chairman of Com
mittees Of the whole House in March, 1855. lie APP
| peared, when first spoken of, to be very eligible
candidate; but, somehow or other, he cushioned
almost as soon as named. The only feasible reason
assigned is that as Lord Southampton, his childess
| brother is in bad health, Mr.. Fzroy might suddenly
| be called to succeed him Peer of Parliament,
| which would cause the inconvenience of having a
| Speakers election in the middle of Session.
The next Liberal candidate was Mr.. Matthew Tablet
Baines against whom nothing more can be said than
that he is So years od-whch by the way, is twelve
months under the age at which Mr. Abercromby was
elected. Mr.. Baines is Cabinet Minister, with
salary of e. 600 year. He is lawyer, s7d had
good practice without obtaining more than the
reputation Of being hard, Flooding, industrious man.
cup to his work and very successful, by his com
nonsense speeches. with ordinary jures. His father
was the late Edward Baines, founder and editor of
The Leeds Mercury long the leading provincial jour
nal in England, and the first Reform NJ p. for the
opulent town of Leeds The young Banes went
through the University Of Cambridge With very bril-
liant success being senior Optime in his graduation
| wear, and winning several przes. he was Recorder
of Hull from 1887 to lSi7 and made excellent LEGAL
Judge. He did not enter Parliament until 1913, at
which time he 40 years old. HIS political platform
is very liberal he goes for short Parliaments extern
sion of the suffrage and Church reform. His family
are Dissenters and he has invariably voted against
Church endowment by the State. lie has also voted
| against the ballot Very after he entered Par
| lament, he was made President of the Poor-Law
Board, which office he held with slight Interrupt
| ton in 1852 to the close of 1855, when he
was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
and is now a Cabinet Minister, promoted to that posi-
ton by steady working habits, sound sense, and unde-
Waiting responsibility of character. After having
| been paraded and even pulled for some weeks, as
| Government candidate for the Speakership, he has
been cast aside The Times sghtirgly mentioning, as
the grounds for bis rejection that his age too adj
vanced though he is younger and healthier than was
Mr.. Abercromby, when elected in 1885, and that his
sight was 70 bad that would prevent his being able
to members in remote parts of the House. He has
thought ii worth while publicly to deny the last impu
tatOn, and the fact is he is near-sighted and wears
glasses with which he see better than three men
out of five without such aid. Were the truth ascer-
tanned it would probably appear that the real impei
men consists in his being exclusively one OF the peo-
| pe-his father having commenced life as journey
man printer-and the aristocratic members of his
| party though they submit to his being in high
Office, shrink from putting him ina position whence
in few years, he would naturally rise to peersge.
If this be aud is very suspiCiOusy probable, al
that need be said is that the socaed Liberals
casonslly more exclusive and Liberal than the ultra
Tories who placed two Other lawyers Lords Tenter-
den and St. Leonards in the upper House, though all
the world knew that their fathers had been BARRIERS
one at Cambridge aud the other in London.
Lord Palmerston's own candidate is MI John Eve.
lyn Denson, one Of the ustrons obscures of Parla-
ment. Connected with the late Duke of Portland by
marriage, and - years od-ony twelve months
Younger than MIR. Baines-he entered Parliamen, in
1873. When the late George Canning became Prime
Minister in 1897, he placed Mr. DensOn, his relative,