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NEW ELECTIONS FOR THE NEW PAKLIAJ 1 ENT . Middlesex , Greenwich , Oldhatn , and Tavistock , are called upon to make a new choice of representatives , vice Iiord Robebt Gkostenor , promoted , Mr . Townseitd , swamped , Mr . Platt , killed accidentally , and M > . Brim , transferred . Lord Grosvenor—Gros-Vmeur—has had ancestors who were noble before the Norman came . He is- better in . than out of the Peerage . Mr . Townseito , as a senator , has been made and unmade by an accident , and no one seems to care what , in . a public sense , becomes of him . Mr . Platt , the young representative of Oldham , was a promising member of Parliament whose early loss has caused deep regret wherever he was known . Mr . Btng has our- eongratulations upon being lifted out of the little Bedford pocket of Tavistock into the great "Whig niche of Middlesex . Because it seems that Middlesex is a niche wherein the "Whigs may set up a scion , unchallenged by the free and independent . " When the vacancy -was announced , a . cloud of names fluttered for a few hours in the daily j ournals : —Mr . Cobden , Mr . Gibson , Mr . Macattlay , Sir "William Clay , Mr . Haikes Cu-rrie , Mr . Henry Fitzroy , and Mr . Wakley , were unofficially and officiously nominated by their friends ; but to each and all there were objections . Mr . Cobdew and Mr . Gibson Avere too fond of turtle-footed peace ; 3 Mr . Maca . itxay had retired ( it was not known then that his patent of peerage had been made out ) ; Sir " William : Clay had no chance ; Mr . Haikus Cctrrie was a stranger ; Mr . Pitzroy coulc
sell is appointed to that horougtu The Duke of Bedfoed writes to the electors to request that they will not vote for Mr . Hussein unless they like him ; of course not ; but they will vote , and the Bedfoed half of ihe borough—failing Mr . Miali—will keep up the balance against Sir John Treiawtte . The Duke , however , is recommended to take a note of this objectionable yielding to the influence of his property , and . to beg as a favour from Lord John Russell that he will set down Tavistock as a constituency that requires a little stretching . Supposing it were to become unnecessary for the Duke to circularize his friends , begging ; them not to vote for his relative unless they please ? "Would that be agreeable to the Lord of "Woburn ? If it would , it would exactly suit the Reformers . Mr . Arthur , we fancy , goes in for the borough , although the show of hands is for Mr . Miall , and there will be one more of that illustrious connexion in the British Legislature . Greenwich will probably bave a seat vacant , although Mr . Townsend ¦ seems to shrink from stripping himself of his senatorial robe and plunging into the cold depths of security . But he can scarcely be permitted to give up Greenwich wholesale to the military companion of the Prince of Wales , by clinging to a dignity which is really no dignity to him , since , ivith . M . P . upon his card , he has been a dummy in St . Stephen ' s , and by no means a credit to his constituency . We advise him , in a friendly spirit , to back out of a ridiculous position , and attend to his local business , varied by parish meetings and oratorical thnnips upon a vestry table . As to his successor , the repentant Liberals are "wooing Mr . Montague Chambers , who makes a show of sulking in Child ' splace , but who really ought to go dovn and take his old place , which we are sorry he ever quitted . Of Lord Campbell ' s son , nothing being known , little is to be said . Alderman Salomons may have a claim upon the electors , but we cannot see it . Baron Rothschild represents the protest against religious exclusion ; then why should another Jewish member be returned before the Oaths question has been settled ? There is a talk of a new man ; of him we say nothing until we know who ho is . New men maybe useful ; but if -we might offer a hint to Greenwich , let it be warned bytlie example of Mr . Townsend not to select little local
popuadministration . There is something tragic in the fatuity of Mr . Tebnon Smith ; but it is a comedy to see him at the helm of our Indian Empire , while Austen Layabd , without a seat in Parliament , is talking reat statesmanship ( mixed up with some extravagance ) at Aylesbury . We sincerely hope that one or other of the open , constituencies vf ill remedy a state of things so anomalous , and restore to the House of Commons some of the best members of the old Parliament ^ who were deposed as much by secret-service money aa by public opinion .
get no supporters ; Mr . Wakley was unmentionable . Then who but Mr . Geokge Byzsts , grand-nephow of old Geobge Bxn & , who was hated by King Geobge , who represented the constituency for fifty years , and who was , in all respects , a good man and true ? We have a liking for young Mr . Byng . Ho professes Liberal principles . He is better than Lord Chelsea , lie is for the ballot , a large extension of the franchise , the abolition of a
laritics , who , after running the gauntlet ot ill-mannered doorkeepers , are led up to the table , sworn , and allowed to take their seats , after which they make no sign until another general election comes round . Oldham has a seat to oflfcr to Mr . Cobden , Mr . Milner Gibson , or Mr . Fox . It would be an act of grace to reinstate Mr . Fox ; but then we want Mir . Cobden- and Mr . Milner Gibson in the House . John Bright is
property qualification , and the admission of Baron Bothschild by a resolution of the Commons . Here wo have very proper votea promised , but coming from Tavxstock , thoy would have been quite aa influential aa coming from Middlesox , with young Mr . Btng for its representative . This , however , did not suit tho Whig book . Middlesex belonged to tho AVinga , and they vrould do Avliat tlieV T ) lf * J \ Rf > rl ivit . li if . An nvpful list . r < f" nr » m _
thero already ; we can spare neither his colleague nor his friend . The three must bo in Parliament before * the constituencies can atone for the disgrace of Manchester . And what docs Aylesbury think of its choice now that Mr . Layajid , who thoroughly understands the East , has hit Mr . VisitNOicr Smith so hard a blow that tho official organs , which cannot answer , are forced to insult him ? He , nAvlinno ivi i it Vi J : viaH : CX l'nniTwi <»!» wlim'O wn 1 Ukl 1111 kJlU l M . Vy \ J »» »?» V Tt jli-v
mitteemen was prepared—tho heads of the great families numbered in it—and all competitors woro warned against attempting to poach on the political manor of Middlesex , riiero was no chance for any one ; no one tried , and tho housoholdera and freeholders lQund the matter very pleasantly arranged without , their interference . The "Whigs have Middlesex , and they will probably keop Tavistock . Mr . Aitxiiim
IIvb-IJ W A . A ( U . . C _ IIU < ( V ^ - »»« s-V * > vv feel assured , he would not appeal in vain to the sturdier and more intelligent electors . Should ho find lus way iato tho House of Commons , ho may have next session to handle Mr . V . HUNON Smith , unless , indeed , that pet ; of tho Whigs , uninitiated oven in the alphabet ; of his duty , haa already "been snuued out by the Indian crisis , and ia going to abate tho retiremont of Mr . F . Punr , and tho other discarded mediocritios , late of the Pat / mkhston j ¦
Lord Macaulay. Ijoed Palmekstoit May Lay...
LORD MACAULAY . IjOED Palmekstoit may lay claim to being the first English Minister who has made a , man distinguished for his authorship a Peer . of the realm . Macattlat is a -writing statesman , and he seems to be introduced into the House of Lords for the purpose of assisting " that assembly with speeial reports on measures and their historical antecedents . The recognition of literature as part of statesmanship is not unprecedented in the European countries that rival us in importance . Prussia 2 of course , is intellectual and bookish in its . official predilections . JSTiebuhb , the historian , in spite of his democratic opinionsand , as his enemies said , in spite of his wanting all statesmanlike qualities — in spite even of his being a Dane , was made Under Secretary of State in Prussia , and , Ambassador to the Pope , solely to mark his . merits as an author . Bunsen " , the pupil and Private Secretary of Niebuhe , is a Prussian Macatjlat— ' a very Prussian . MACAUiLAY . ' HiIEbig , born of humble parents at Darmstadt , and , enabled to study through the liberality of the great scientific statesman Htjmboldt , was raised without solicitation to an hereditary barony by the Grand Duke of Hesse . Bach , the all-powerful Austrian Minister , has- not exactly been raised by his literary talent ; but , of humble birth , practising as an attorney 111 a small town of the iLower Danube , he first , some ten years ago , attracted attention by works which he had written , and so became Home Secretary of the Empire , Baron , and all that sort of thing . In Prance many of the most eminent men of the- present day , as well as of tho past—Tiiiehs no less than Mignet , and Guizot no less than either—were of obscure if not humble origin . Yillemaitst was raised in 1832 to the dignity of a Peer of Prance ,
and from 1839 to lS-a-l was Minister 01 Jfumic Instruction , solely on account of his literarytalents . Literature has not done so much for the public men in this country because in our free constitution other channels areopen ; quite as much also because public opinion compels Government to pay more attention to-¦ wealth than intellect ; and yet as much because , tho free action of arbitrary Governments i enables them , when they please , to jnmp over
the barriers of hereditary rank , and distribute honours according to the -will and pleasure of the supremo ruler . We have been in fcrior to some of our continental rivals ; and Lord Palmehston is tho first to romovo tho inferiority . Ho has chosen an object for tho earliest exercise of this honour-distribution which will bo tho least calculated to shock prejufliws n . iul tho moat profitable to tho Mill inter . #
X . ^ ^ . ^ ^^* »_ m v » - » ^ v " —^ — " ~^ r- ' — r w — — — Mr . Maoaulay had already been admitted into ' tho best society , ' people have become so accustomed to regard him ns belonging to tlmt upper lremiaphoro , that they - williilmoat havo forgotten unytliing poeulinr m his being niado a Poor , excepting that ho is known not to bo rich . Mr . Maoauhay is art independent man , but exceedingly sajcj n . Whig and something moro—in tho official direction . Althoug h ho has not beer *
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 5, 1857, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05091857/page/15/
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