THE NEW PARLIAMENT.

Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 488, 2 March 1869, Page 3

THE NEW PARLIAMENT.

The composition of the new House is not materially different from that of its predecessor. There is a larger proportion of new members ; but it contains no revolutionary elements. The senior member for Lincoln, in addressing his constituents the other day, remarked, as the result of his analysis, that it included 210 members connected with the aristocracy, 100 military men, 100 members of the bar, 130 ;manuf acturers and merchants, and eightyfour editors, doctors, " and such like gentlemen." Much to the, regret of many leading politicians, not a single working-

man has found admission. When the mail left last month, the result of the elections in the Orkneys arid Scotch Universities was still uncertain ; but the returns all helped to swell the Liberal majority, There have been three deaths since, and there will be other minor changes ; but the fact is unchallenged, that Mr Gladstone h;i3 a larger following pledged, to his support than any Minister for many years, This iirst Parliament under the new constitution, assembled on the 30th of December, A large concourse of people watched the gathering in New Palaceyard, and Mr Disraeli, as he passed, was much hissed and a little cheered, Within j there were few onlookers. Mr Reverdy Johnson was the only member of the diplomatic corps who witnessed the inaugural proceedings. But of members thei'e was j a very large attendance. The only important business was the election of a Speaker, and by unanimous consent Mr John Evelyn Denison, the member for North Nottinghamshire, was again chosen to fill that honorable post. Two or three clays were occupied in " swearing in," and the other usual formalities ; several members seized the earliest opportunity to give notices of motion — more than one, for instance, proposed to invite the House to ' mend the Reform Act, and revive the compound householder ; and then an adjournment took place until after the reelection of Minister*. There was a brief session again on the 29th, to enable them to take the oaths, and then the House adjourned till the 16th of February. The interval of the recess will be well filled in preparations, and immediately on re-as-sembling the House will enter on the great questions now before the nation,