THE NEW PARLIAMENT.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1837, 12 January 1880, Page 3

THE NEW PARLIAMENT.

The “ Daily Telegraph” asks —“Will the new House of Commons, when it comes into existence, contain any member who was first sent to Parliament prior to the great Reform Bill of 1832 ? The last few years have played havoc among very old members of Parliament, and the death of Mr Henry Oorry, in the April of 1873, made room for his successor as Father of the House, in the person of General Cecil Forester, who was himself removed to the Upper House by the death of his elder brother, Lord Forester, in the October of 1874. The place vacated by General Forester was filled by its present occupant, Mr Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, who has held his seat for the county of Glamorgan by unbroken tenure since 1830, and with whom Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton—now member for West Cheshire, but first elected for Chester in 1830 —shares the distinction of having belonged to the House of Commons in the days when Birmingham and Leeds, being unrepresented, were of less account in the body politic than Gatton and Old Sarum. It will thus be seen that the House still contains two members, one of them Liberal and the other Conservative, who were first sent to Par-lament nearly half a century since, and of whom Mr Talbot has always represented the same constituency. His contemporary, Bir Philip Egerton, on the other band, was defeated when standing for Cheshire in 1831, and, having been out of Parliament until 1835, he would lose all claim to the patriarchal honors surrendered by Mr Talbot, if—which we sincerely hope will not be the case— he should refuse again to come forward, on the arrival of the dissolution, for that seat which he has honorably occupied for well nigh fifty years.” The “ Daily News ” remarks that amid the unceitainty that surrounds Ministerial intentions with respect to the date of the dissolution of Parliament, there is relief as well as information to be found in studying the provisions of the Act of Parliament which regulates the procedure of a general election. The time necessarily occupied between the issuing of the Queen's Proclamation dissolving Parliament and the date of the assembling of the new House is a d*y or two over five weeks. But the actual process of election is much more briefly accomplished. It is ordained that in counties and district boroughs the nomination of candidates must take place not Jater than the ninth day after the reception of the writ. In the event of a poll being demanded the date must be fixed within six clear days of the nomination day. In boroughs this term is considerably reduced The nomination must be made not later than fourth day after the receipt of the writ, and if there is a contest the polling day must be fixed within three days. In boroughs therefore only a week is allowed after the reception of the writ for accomplishing all the details of a contested election. Practically it comes to pass that within a fortnight of the dissolution of Parliament the momentous issue would be decided, and all the world would know whether wo are to have another five years, more or less, of Tory rule. The “ Central News” furnishes a list of Parliamentary candidates for the next goneral election, corrected up to the Ist November. Prom this return it appears that there are 889 candidates in the field for 652 seats. In thirty boroughs returning one member there are no Liberal candidates yet announced, while fifty-five boroughs returning one member are as yet without Conservative candidates. In five boroughs returning two members the Liberals have no candidate in the field, and in seventeen boroughs only one candidate in each. In one borough returning three members they have one candidate, while iu one borough returning the same number they have two. In sixteen boroughs returning two members the Conservatives have no candidates, and in twenty-five such boroughs only one in each. In five boroughs returning three members they have bub two aspirants for Parliamentary honors. In the county divisions returning one member each the Liberals have no representatives in five instances, and fch© are without candidates in eleven county divisions. In forty-four divisions returning two members the Liberals have only one candidate, and in two divisions two candidates. In twenty-six divisions returning two members the Conservatives have no candidates, and in seventeen only one. In six divisions returning throe members they have only two candidates. In this analysis the Horae Rulers have been taken as a portion of the Liberal party. For the \ City of London, returning four members, . there are throe Conservatives and one Liberal \ in the fields