The Householder Parliament met for the first time on Thursday,
the 10th inst. The attendance was considerable, but the members of the new Cabinet were of course absent ; and Mr. Disraeli, who had been severely hissed by the mob outside, did not open his lips from the Opposition Bench. The only business done was the election of a Speaker, which was effected without a division, Sir
George Grey proposing and Mr. Walpole seconding the reappoint- ment of Mr. Denison. That gentleman has now served for three Parliaments, and it is agreed on both aides has developed into a most dignified and efficient Speaker, who errs, if he errs at all, on the side of lenity and forbearance. It was assumed by everybody who spoke that he might have more trouble with the new House, but that was only conventional. The middle-aged millionaires who make up the bulk of the new members hold that if the Decalogue had to be compressed into a telegraphic message the bulletin would run, " Be ye respectable." The Speaker will manage them all more easily than Mr. Bernal Osborne alone.
