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      T HE House of Commons is winding up affairs for its own . dissolution , and the country is preparing for the struggle in which so many -will bleed at the general election . Members are dividing themselves into the classes who will retire , who will be defeated , or will be re-elected ; and " prospective computation" allots them into these several nlasses with much confidence—with more

      confidence , perhaps , than correctness . It has been calculated that all the Liberal members who voted against Lord Paimekston ' s Government will lose their seats , and the constituencies who elected those members are bidden to prefer even Tories to recreant Liberals . Some of the constituencies do not prove to be so obedient . Hather a curious example has been given by Mr . Apsley Peliatt , who voted for Ministers , but declines to accept re-election on the ground of a Paxmerston candidate , preferring to stand upon his own character as a Reformer . It

      seems to be tolerably certain that some of thePeclite candidates will be ousted ; but it is difficult to imagine that the Oxford University will divorce itself from Mr . Gladstone , notwithstanding the strange aberrations into which he has wandered . Portsmouth , which has been reckoned almost a Government borough , shows more alacrity in repudiating Viscount Monck than Sir . PBA . Ncrs Baking , faithful as tlie Viscount was to his chief , Lord

      Paxmerston , and faithful as Sir Piiancis was to bis -view of logic in the lorcha affair . London City turns oat to be better disciplined than some of these country constituencies , for it dutifully throws out Lord John Russeli , and the City looks out for new candidates . The leading members of the' Administrative Reform Association , arc seen promoting a better selection of candidates to represent a commercial constituency .

      Others of the Metropolitan districts arc looking out for new candidates . Mr . Westekxon will probably stand for Westminster on Protestant , anti-Lu > J ) Eiiij principles . Mr . II . Raikes CtmiuEcoincs up from Northampton to take his chance in the City . And there arc likely to be other changes . In the absence of any distinct rallying cry , beyond personalities which have been thrown out by Ministers " and . IIeu Majesty ' s Opposition , there is no definite principle for the selection of candidates ; but it is more than probable that the ellcct of putting forth a personal cry as the principle of election will go far to defeat itself . Certain it is

      Sir Geobge Grey , who anticipated that Sir John would rcintroduce his Education Bill in the next Parliament . Some of the members arc more obstinate . Mr . GiiAJDSTONE , for instance , who made an elaborate review of our expenditure , and was defeated by 187 to 125 , on moving that it should be revised and reduced , in order to relieve the people from taxation , declared that he should bring the subject forward again next session . He is almost certain to find his way into the House ; after the turmoil of the election the public will be disposed to turn its eye to reductions , other financial members will be

      thinking of administrative and similar reforms , and Mr . Gladstone , therefore , is likely to prove a troublesome customer . ' Not the less so , since Mr . Diskaeli repaid the right honourable gentleman ' s services by turning the cold shoulder to him . Mr . SroouEii has resolved to investigate the Kensington Gore Estate advances , which the Chancellor of TiiE Exchequer has deferred until next session ; and it is highly probable that Mr . SrooNEii will not be compelled to retire from his seat for Warwickshire .

      On one point Ministers have been virtually beaten in the House of Commons . But , with more tact than he showed in the Locke King debate , Lord Pjvlmeuston has deprived his enemies of a victory . A respectable agricultural Member took up the case of Sir John M'Nejxl and Colonel Tulloch , for the greater part of two years so familiar to our readers . Ministers sent these men to the Crimea to supply them with information ,

      and , in consequence , many improvements were speedily made by the Government , which disarmed the public impatience at the bad administration of the army . On the return of the Commissioners , they found the very men who had been distinguished for misconduct receiving honours and additional emoluments , while not < i word was said to them for the service done . Months after came partial verbal acknowledgments ; months after again a letter of cold compliments , offering the J ^ A ^ -tew gentlemen a thousand pounds apiece , whicV'iM ! y £ * - «> £ \ * -j dccliucd . There it seemed ended , but Mr wjj ^^^^ ffi would not have it so ; he referred the mutSa , i ^ M ^ ff JJBT ^ Crimean question itself had been refemgk ta ® ii § SJr viSa tfi House of Commons ; and on his motion ^ uJ ^ BiB ^^^^ 4 S adopted a resolution applauding the twO | £ tf ) ggmQdB ^| fM hi sioncrs , and requesting the Crown to 1 'c \ vM'T& » L ^ $$ * r ) t ' lionorarily . Till that moment Lord PAL&ii ^^^^ Ci / ^ had stood out obstinately—as obstinately asTo ""*"""* " *¦'"** resisted Locke Kino's instalment of Reform . It

      that the excitement which \ vas at first raised , is alr eady , to a great extent , worn out . But deprived of an y political proposition or practical object for which they might work , the constituencies are to a proportionate extent left to their own principles or fancies ; and hence there is far more than customary degree of diversity in the grounds upon which the different constituencies are acting . In one place they go for Pai / mehston ; in another for

      The impossibility of calculating what may he the course in that Parliament , is shown by the general resignation with which members notify the abandonment of their measures , not only for " ( he session , " but as if they threw up the . schemes sine die , without any definite resolution to take them Tip again . Sir Joun Pakjngton expressly chocked

      their old candidate whose services are long tried ; in a third for the ballot or suffrage extension ; in a fourth for the promotion of useful improvements ; in a fifth for some combination which would keep out the Tory / ' or would divide the constituency between Tory and Liberal ; in a sixth for Protestant interests ; in a seventh for making as much money as the electors can out of a candidate who is buying a scat to promote his own railway objects . Thus , instead of marshallincr the new or re-elected

      members according to well-known political distinctions , the election is likely to send up an unclassified host ; , less than usual governed by ihc ordinary party allegiances . It is calculated by those who have the command of political arithmetic , that Lord Palmerston will increase his majority , but on what principles he will be supported by his new majority nobody can in the slightest degree anticipate . Of course , with a recruited army at his back , he will be able to snatch some decisive victories out

      of the House of Commons on its first meeting . He is not the man to let victory slumber . Should he contemplate retirement , as many anticipate , lie will probably bring his power to a prompt test , will extort a vote upon some Ministerial question which can easily be made for the purpose , and will politically expire , like Harlequin at the end of a pantomime , in a luminous whirligig .

      And some of the town constituencies appear to be altogether disinclined to give up their " proper representatives . Manchester , for instance , is likely enough to stick to Milner Gibson and Bright . Should Lord JoiiN Russelx be rejected from the City , he will easily find a scut for some other place . It is not to be expected , therefore , that the House will be so devoid of the old familiar speakers as some have imagined .

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      "The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the b . amsrs erected between , men by prejudice " and one-aided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and CoIout , to treat the whole Hainan race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . " —Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      REVIEW OF TH E WEEK— vaqe Naval and Military .. . 2-17 Liberals afc the Elections ... 252 Tlie Spiritualist 257 Tmnerial Parliament 24- ' Oar Civilization 217 Foreign Policy Reform 253 A Batch of Books .... ... 257 The ADnroachine General Election "" Gatherings from tlie Law and Po- : Retirement of theSpeaker 253 Torrens on the Act of 1844 258 ThtLSerarvFand 245 Hoe Courts ,.... ; ...... 24 S Cambridge Politics .: . 254 A Persian Allegory 259 Accidents and Sudden " Deaths"V . V ;" . V . 245 ¦ ^ f ? , ?"? " ? " ? ' — ' | £ The Ruined Season ..... 251 THEARTSThe Orient ...... ...-. 215 Postscript ............. 249 The Literary . Fund Mooting- 264 . „„„ £ ' , 259 America .... ; ..... 245 OPEN COUNCIL- Tie Crimean Commissioners 254 " »¦* mcl | o « State of Trade ............ 245 Convict-Converts .... 250 Uircct'Telegraph to India ... .. 254 Xitc lnuccss s 25 » Continental Notes .... 246 „ .. „ . , _ . _ -., „_ LITERATURE— Tun fin . 7 otto Qr , ft The law of Libel and the Newspaper PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Summary ^ , 5 Gazette -W > Press 246 The General Election 250 llelps's Spanish Conquest ' . ' . " . ' . ' .. " ... 255 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSThe Boyal British Bank 246 The Newest Paris Credit Scheme ... 251 Sir John Bovring in Siam 25 t > City Intelligence , Markets , &c 200 015

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      VOIi . VIII . No . 364 . ] SATURDAY , MARCH 14 , 1857 . Pmce ffii ^ ' ^ IgS ' -

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 14, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2184/page/1/