Parliament will meet for the despatch of business early in
November. The particular day of meeting has not, however, been yet fixed. We urge on the Liberal Members to make arrangements to insure their k,resence at the opening of Parliament ; for the attendance of every .i.iberal Member will obviously be required to counteract the factious designs of the Tories, whose plans are better known than they perhaps imagine.—Morning Chronicle.
The Morning Chronicle dwells with satisfaction on the changes in the representative body of Ireland:— " There were returned (says the Chronicle) from Ireland in Sir Robert Peel's Parliament about 42 Tories and 63 Liberal Members. Of these last, we believe, about 29 were Roman Catholics. In the ensuing Parliament there sill be an increase of at least 10 Liberal members; that is, there will be, at the most 32 Tories, and at the least 73 Reformers. It follows that in order to pre. servetheformer proportions, there ought to be an addition of at least four Roman Catholics. Flow many Roman Catholics does the reader think will be, in fact, added to the Irish representation? Not one. On the contrary, there will be a positive diminution of their number. Seven Roman Catholics cease to be Members of Parliament from Ireland—Messrs. Finn, Fitzsimon, Maurice O'Connell, Brady, Musgrave, Sir Patrick Bellew, and Dr. Baldwin. Of the mew Members five only are Coman Catholics—Messrs. Chester, James, Red- &hotel], Archbold, and Captain Bryan. So much for the absence of sec- tarian feeling, in ruling the political predilections of the Irish."
The others are Lord Brabazon, Sir W. Somerville, Mr. Beamish, Mr. Mahony, Mr. Hutton, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Lord Belfast, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Ashton Yates, Mr. Mamie, Mr. Howard, Mr. O'Cal- laghan, and Mr. Hume—all Chronicle-warranted Protestants, men of undoubted respectability, and not Repealers.
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