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      venience : he had intended to retire on account of Ms age—though tea years junior to the Premier—but as he found that that course would be agreeable to two-thirds ¦ of his constituents , he had since determined to hold on Jike grim death : he defied any man to turn him out , -unless he had a much heavier purse than his own : —a -delicate compliment to the incorruptibility of the electors —and , in conclusion , he expressed his perfect satisfaction with himself . His colleague next spoke : a gentlemanly-looking man , with spectacles and a long thin narrow chin , and

      something of the pedagogue in the preciseness of his lips . This speaker was as respectful as his predecessor had been the reverse . He bowed to the superior wisdom of his constituents in all things , except in t . tieir expectation that he and his esteemed colleague should be present in their places in Parliament . How could he vote on Irish or Scotch , or even private English bills , not pertaining to the borough ? Of course it was not his business to make himself acquainted with matters that interested only the nation , tut did not exclusively refer to his own constituency .

      He resumed his seat amid loud applause , which likewise greeted every subsequent speaker who spoke eitlier for or against Lord Palmerston . In the end , the anti-Palmerstonians had rather the best of it , because no one remained to continue the up-and-down movement of the political balance . The conclusion therefore at which I have arrived from these experiences is simply this , that the candidates are generally as worthy of the electors as the electors are of the candidates . In this harmony 1 recognise the existence of that dogma which you , sir , strive to bring into discredit ; namely , that whatever is , is best . And in this belief I beg to subscribe myself , Your obedient servant , Candide .

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      ¦¦¦¦ HIHNMMMMiHaMaMaMWBHaMiaMMMMHMBMMI ^ NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . During the Session of Parliament it is often impossible to find room for correspondence , even the briefest .

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      might more speedily comprehend the meanine and the necessity of a Reform Bill . There are several members of the Liberal party on whom coronets might be bestowed without a waste of heraldic honour ; certain Earls and Viscounts now sitting among Commoners might appropriately take their places under the hereditary roof . But it will be time to consider these exigencies when the views of the House of Lords , on the subject of the representation , have been dul y elicited .

      ^ oryisin , defeated at the General Election enjoys two consolations . It has not ] ost many borough seats , having , as we have remarked , a very small number to lose , and it has not lost any of its distinguished men . For the same reason , we are sorry to say . " Who are the distinguished Tories ? Now , we wish to answer this question in no unfair or factious spirit , as will be evident when we allow Mr , Disbadli , Sir Fitzboy Kelly , Sir Fjhedeuick Thesiger , Mr . Wai / pole , Sir Bitlweii Lytton , Sir John Pakington , Mr . Wakbek , and ' Mr . Whiteside , one and all , to be distinguished individuals . If the party has other names to

      THE NEW PARLIAMENT . DisTTiiBUTiN& the members of the new House of Commons under two general heads — -Liberal and Conservative—yve are now enabled to calculate their respective forces . There are , as nearly as possible , four hundred Liberals , and about two hundred and sixtyfive Tories . In the late Parliament the Tories numbered more than three hundred . They appear to console themselves for their county defeats by dwelling . upon the fact that they liave lost few boroughs . They had , however , very few boroughs to lose . The two or three that remained to them in Scotland have been forfeited . The war was carried on in

      the counties , and here the results have been astonishing . Thirty county seats have been gained by the Liberal party ; only two by the Tories . The renegade Hamiltons have seen their influence beaten down in Lanarkshii'e ; some of the English counties which for many years had invariably returned ji Carltoii nominee , have changed sides , anct given a large majority to the Reform candidates . Elsewhere , it is notorious , the Conservatives misrht have been defeated had

      Liberal candidates chosen to stand forward . Another remarkable circumstance is that , out of a hundred and sixty new members elected , not more than forty-three profess Conservative principles . Thus a majority of the six hundred thousand county electors , as well of the five hundred thousand borough electors , even without the protection of the Ballot , have emphatically declared against the opinions held by the followers of Lord Derby . The Ballot , of course , would have repudiated still more decidedly the Shiboleth of the country gentlemen ; while a fair representation of the people in Parliament would havo reduced tliem to their

      proper place in the State—that of a political fraction , occupying a quiet corner of the House of Commons , an ounce weight to steady the scales . As it is , while the separatist sections—the Manchester party and ; he Peelites—have been all but obliterated , tho obstructive party has suffered under a proceBs of severe mutilation . It has been at least doubly decimated . The nation will gain in two ways . The House of Commons ,

      relieved of many a solid rural presence , will be enabled to legislate upon a large and safe liberal basis , and tho Derbyitc minority in tho House of Lords will bo proportionately discouraged . The majorities in tho Upper House depend finally upon the majorities in the Lower , although it may become a question whether a lew Liberal peerages might not conveniently bo created , in order that the senatora of tho ied-an < l-gold chamber

      show , what are they ? We submit that it would be impossible , without irony , to increase the list . Some years ago , indeed , the Earl of Debjby confessed that he had too few men of experience and capacity among his followers to form a competent administration . And even now some deductions must be made . We have noted eight persons as distinguished . But only three of them are politicians—Mr . DisEAEi , i , Sir John Takington , and Mr . " Waxpole . Two are brilliant

      counsel ; one is a novelist , and remembers it when he speaks in Parliament ; one lias written , with lurid incoherence , the romance of epileptic lunacy . So it is not much to say that Toryism has no great names among its killed and wounded . As to the Manchester Leaguers and their adherents , it was impossible to attack them without striking at some distinguished reputation . Of the rejected members of that party not one was obscure . Who that habitually reads the public journals , ^ will be struck by the absence from division lists of Baiuiingtok , Fakheb , Pl-OYEK , COMPTON , NlSSBITT , FelEOTVES , or Mundt ? But who will . fto * call to mind

      again and again the loss of Cobdjsn and Bright , of La yard and Miln : er Gtijbson" ? Reverting to the partial rout of the Peelite section , it is curious to observe the pertinacity with which , in Tory manuals , Mr . Gladstone and Mr . Sidney Herbert ate claimed as Conservatives . Poverty , however , is 31 o excuse for stealing , although destitution may be . The intellect of Mr . Gladstone and Mr . Sidney Herbert does not

      belong to the Carlton Club ; those men are Liberals ;¦ had they been defeated , Lord Derby would not have been the loser . Certainly , Mr . Cahdw ; el : l' s rejection at Oxford is not a Tory failure , although it may have been a questionable success on the part of the advanced Liberals . In spite of an exterior somewhat frozen by official pedantry , no member of tho late House of Commons entertained more conscientious or cordial popular sympathies than Mr . Cakdwisil , the friend and literary executor of Sir Kotjert Peel .

      It follows that , while the Peelite party has been broken up , and the Manchester party deprived for a time of its representation in Parliament , the liberals of all _ shinies form a vast majority , while the minority , composed of Tories , also of all shades , has been reduced by at least one-sixth . This opens a promising prospect for Keforniers . Their great interest , as was well known early lust week , is actually under tho consideration of tho Government . Nothing but a Trims-

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural , a : n . d convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when allthe worlcUsby thevery law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Arnold . . ¦¦ .., . — ? - ——¦ . ¦ ¦

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      SATUEDAY , APEID 11 , 1857 .

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      Solar Spots . —It appears to be not enough that we are to he extinguished by the comet next 13 th of June , and that we are to be ¦ visited by a murrain in the meanwhile ; there is something also the matter with the sun , according : to " Helioscopus , " a correspondent of the Times , who writes , with respect to the spots on the solar disc : — * ' The observers of these phenomena should be on the alert , . as the spotless and monotonous state of the solar disc which prevailed during the whole of last year , in precise conformity ; "with the law of their periodical disappearance at regular intervals of oneninth bf a century , is evidently giving place to a more active state of things . Already , on the 31 st of last December , the appearance of an exceedingly minute

      speck announced a change commencing , and , on the 2 nd of" January and 9 th of February , minute double spots were also seen , but the whole of March passed without any further indication of movement . Now , however , a group of four—two pretty conspicuous and two very minute ones—have entered on the northern , hemisphere , and the state of the borders of the disc in the neighbourhood is such as to indicate the probable appearance of more or enlargement of those existing . They w \ ay be seen with a very moderate telescopic power . The greatest' interest has begun to attach itself to these appearances , which are undoubtedly connected with most important processes in the economy of nature , and they should be observed assiduously . "

      " A Dowdy " Wife . "— -The mother of General Sir Charles Napier was a daughter of the ducal house of Lennox . Her father , the second Duke of Richmond , and grandson of Charles II . by Louis do Querouaille , the celebrated Duchess of Portsmouth , was betrothed when a boy to the Lady Sarah Cadogan , to cancel a gambling debt between the parents . " Surely , you are not going to marry me to that dowdy ! " said the young fellow , then Lord March , when the knot was about to be tied . Tho knot was tied , however , and immediately the youthful bridegroom was hurried away from his dowdy bride to the Continent . Three years

      afterwards , on . returning from his travels , Lord March ¦ went straight to the theatre and saw a lady with whose appearance ho was fascinated . " Why , that is the reigning toast' —that is Lady March , " he was told . It waa his dowdy wife . The next moment he claimed her , and they lived eo happily together that years afterwards we find them cooing to each other most affectionately at a ball described in one of tho letters of Horace Walpole . " The ball began at eight o'clock . Th « beauties were the Duko of Richmond ' s two daughters and their mother , still handsomer than they . The Duke sat by his wife all night , kissing her hand . "Jjye , by ( Sir W . Napier .

      Angixj-Saxon anu Latin . —It would bo-almost impossible to compose a sentence of moderate length con-BiBting solely of words of Latin derivation . But there are many which can bo rendered wholly in Anglo-Saxon . It would bo caay to make the Lord ' s Prayer entirely , as it ia in present use almost entirely , Anglo-Saxon . It consists of ai . Nty words , and six of the « o only have a Latin root . But for each of them , except one , we have an exact Saxon cquivnlent . For " trespasses , " > vo may substitute » sina ¦ » for " temptation , " " tnnla ; " for " deliver , " "free ; " uml for " power !" " ¦ might . Dr . Trench proposes for " glory , " " brightness ; " but this wo think is not a good substitute although wo are unablo to suggest a hotter . — " Literary Stylo , " Frmei' for April .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 11, 1857, page 348, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2188/page/12/