THE NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 247, 2 April 1910, Page 5

THE NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS.

An analysis of the members of the new Home Parliament shows that out of the 664 members returned 440 were members of the late Parliament. The following is an analysis of the various precessions of the members: —Bankers and financiers, 13; Barristers (in or out of practice) and K.C's, 125; brewers, distillers and wine merchants, 13; builders, architects and surveyors, 8; civil and mining engineers, 11; colliery proprietors and coal merchants,!; commercial traveller, 1; diplomatists and Government officials, 8; directors of public companies, 12; estate agents, accountants and auc-. tioneers, 7; farmers and agriculturists, 13; gentry and landowners, 56; ironmasters and metal, merchants, 13; labour representatives, 46; manufacturers and spinners, 15; medical profession, 9; merchants, English, foreign and colonial, 37; ministers of religion, 3; motor-car industry, 2; newspaper proprietors and journalists, 38; peers' sons and brothers, 45; picture and art dealer, 1; pilot, 1; printers, booksellers and authors, 8; professors of universities and lecturers, 12; railway and naval contractors, 3: secretaries, private and official, 10; steamship and shipowners and builders, 12; solicitors (in and out of practice), 30; stock and sharebrokers, 4; schoolmasters and tutors, 2; profession not stated, 1; total 618; military officers: Colonels, 11; lieu-tenant-colonels, 4; captains, 22; majors, 5; lieutenants, 2; naval officers: Admiral, 1; lieutenant, 1; total 46; grand total, 664. One or two features in the late election deserve notice. The brewers, distillers, and wine and. spirit merchants have decreased their representation as compared with the last Parliament. The representatives of Labour, including several who claim to rank as such, numbered in the last Parliament 53, but ten of this number have been defeated at the polls, and three new Labour members returned. Representatives in Parliament of the Metropolitan and provincial press have maintained their numerical strength as compared with the last Parliament, and the tenant farmers have increased their representation, although they have lost a useful member in Robert Lacey Everett, Woodbridge, Suffolk. Th 3 medical profession have increased the number of their representatives, but the leaders of the temperance party have sustained the loss of two members —Thomas William Russell, Tyrone, S., and Liefchild S. Jones, Appleby. The following five have been re-elected: —T. Cameron Corbett, Glasgow; C. H. Roberts, Lincoln; Arthur J. Sherwell, Huddersfield; Sir Thomas P. Whittaker, Spen Valley; and Henry J. Wilson, Holmfirth, and thsse five members are prominent supporters of the United Kingdom Alliance in the House of Commons. Amongst the various religious denominations fifteen members of the Jewish community have been returned to Parliament out of the 32 candidates, all of whom, except one, were returned for English constituencies, and they £re equally divided between the Conservative and Liberal parties. The Father of thß House of Commons is Thomas Burt, member for Morpeth, who has served the longest uninterrupted period in Parliament, having .represented Morpeth for 36 years, although he is not the oldest member in the House. That distinction is due to Samuel Young, member for Cavan, who is in his eighty-eighth year.