THE KW 13PJTISK TAT-LIAJd'A'T.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 50, 17 February 1880, Page 3

THE NEW BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

; « The Daily Tylegvnpli nt>Us - " Will the lime 11/nse < f Commons, when it c >mos i^to exU-u nee, oont '« any mem!-. r vlio was first seat to l>tir;"montvi a- to iho great !:o!brm_Biil of 1832 V Tl.o last fow Veins nave played havoc among wry old wornbers of Parliament, and tho <:ea>li Mr Henry Corry, in the April of 1873, made room for his successor as Faihcr oi' the House, in the person of General Cecil Forester, who was himself removed to the Upper house by tho death of his elder brother, Lord Forester, in the October ol 1874. The place vacated ) y General Forester was filled by its present occupant. Mr Christopher Mansel Tall-ot, who has held his seat for the county of Glamorgan by unbroken .enure since 1830, and with whom Sir 'Philip de Alalpns Grey Ege-ton-now member for West Cheshire, but first elected for Chester in 1830-shares the distinction of having belop;;ed to the House of Commons in the days vh°n Birmingham aud Leeds, being unrepresented, were of less account in the body politic than Gatton and and Old Sarum. It will thus be seen that the House s-ill contains two members, one of them Liberal and the other Cuiisuvative, who were first sent to Parliament nearlj half a century since, and of wh-m Mr Talbot has always rep.esented the same constituency. His contemporary, bir Philip Egerton, on the other band, was defeated when standin» for Cheshiro in 1831, and, having been out of Parliament until 1835, he would lose all claim to the patriarchal honors surrendered by \] TaU>ofc, ii— which we sincerely hope will not be the case- he should refuse «o come forward, on tlie arrival of the dissolution, for that seat which he has honorably occupied for well nigh fifty years."