to vote in favour of, measures which be approves of,

rather than Mischievous and melancholy are the consequences of the course oppose the Whig Ministers, with whom he is connected. He is taken by Sir HENRY PARNELL. In the first place, it has revived

therefore crippled in his defence. to a great extent the old feeling of distrust in public men. Dur-

sir HENav PARNELL appears to forget, that although his re- ing a long political career, Sir HENRY PARNELL had established putation as a man of businees and a financial reformer, and his a character for emisistency and independence, unswerving and excellent personal character, had procured him the respect of the indomitable. But since he joined Lord MELBOURNE he has Dundee Reformers, yet that it was his INDEPENDENCE, exhibited swerved. He is no longer in possession of the entire coutidence jo his retirement from the GREY Admininistration, which mainly of his constituents and of the country. It is only when out of recommended him to their choice as the successor of Mr. KIN- office (as he told the Political Unionists of Dundee) that he will LOCH. At the great Dundee meeting in April 1833, when Sir vote for all the measures to which his pledges and the popular HENRY first met his present constituents, he informed them, that sympathies stand engaged. Were Sir HENRY PARNELL less although he nominally went out of office on the Russian-Dutch respectable, and less pure as regards money matters, it would Loan question, when Mr. Hume voted that "black was white" to be said of him that he will only vote according to his principles save the Ministry, the real efficient cause of his resignation of the and pledges when nothing is to be had by voting against them. post of Secretary at War was his " unwillingness to bring forward When such a man misrepresents his constituents and shrinks Estimates such as the Ministry approved of." This, thought the from the support of his declared opinions, on whom, it will be disinterested Dundee constituency, is the man for us. Here is a said, can we rely ? truly independent statesman, one upon whom we can rely to vote A second bad consequence of Sir HENRY PARNELL'S refusal with or against Ministers in reference solely to their measures. to support the Ballot, and his abandonment of perfectly inde- ht this same meeting, Sir HENRY PARNELL pledged himself to pendent action in Parliament, is the excuse his dereliction affords vote for the repeal of the Septennial Act, and spoke in favour of to others. See, they say, we have done nothing worse than this the Ballot, a reduction in the Army Estimates, and the abolition distinguished patriot and highminded gentleman—we only did as of Military Flogging—declaring that he considered the " military Sir HENRY PARNELL did; and who can doubt his honesty or opinions on winch the opinion of the necessity of flogging was discretion ? founded as good for nothing." In the full belief that he would In the third place, as regards Sir HENRY personally, the act up to these professions, Sir HENRY PARNELL was returned for course he has thought fit to adopt will be injurious. Such

Dundee, without opposition. and almost without expense. is the high esteem in which his general character is held in

In November 1833, after the close of the session, Sir HENRY Dundee, that we do not suppose he will be rejected at the next dined in Dundee, and gave an account of his Parliamentary con- election ; but he will never be again returned in his absence, and duct ; taking credit for having opposed the Ministerial Army without cost. There will be no more unopposed, free elections. Estimates' for having voted for the repeal of the Septennial Act, The seat will be contested. There will be beartburning, trouble, and for the Ballot. The confidence of the Reformers of Dundee expense, and disunion amon g Reformers ; by which, perchance, " the in the fidelity and consistency of their Member was, if possible, Tory enemy " will profit. This consideration ought to weigh with a augmented. prudent person like Sir HENRY PARNELL. It is a pity that he But in 1835, Sir HENRY PARNELL became Lord MELBOURNE'S did not take courage, vote for the Ballot, as another official, Lord Paymaster of the Forces; his Parliamentary conduct assumed a CHARLES FITZROY, did; and (if he thought that necessary) offer different complexion ; and from that time to the present he has his resignation. Durst Lord MELBOURNE have accepted it ? We been losing ground in Dundee. On the dissolution that followedthe think not. Sir HENRY PARNELL would have reestablished his death of old Lord SPENCER, he was elected in his absence, and reputation, and been alike secure of his office and of his unop- without cost, to the PEEL Parliament. On his acceptance of office, posed return for Dundee. he was again elected, and on the same terms—so honourable to the If it be not altogether too late to offer another warning to Lord Dundee constituency and himself. In 1835, Mr. GROTE proposed MELBOURNE, we would bid him reflect, whether a policy which the Ballot ; and the name of Sir HENRY PARNELL was not found threatens such a man as Sir HENRY PARNELL with the loss of among the Ayes. The Political Union of the town called him to the representation of the second commercial town in Scotland, account for his absence; and Sir HENRY grounded his defence wherein real Reformers greatly preponderate, can be safe or on the policy of not dividing the Ministerial forces at that very honourable for a Ministry which pretends to be " Liberal ? " critical period. The Political Union agreed that his absence, With w hat face can the Premier expect Reformers to make sa- meter the peculiar condition of the Ministry, was " justifiable ;" crifices in support of the Administration, when it is seen that every but expressed their opinion that the practice of making a Minis- independent man suffers in character and popularity by his con-

terial opposition to the Ballot was unnecessary and improper. It nexion with it ?

then appeared, however, for the first time, that Sir HENRY PAR- —in every instance, Ministers should come before Parliament fairly, state the NELL'S notions as to the duty of a member of the Government reasons which exist, say how much should be given, and let Parliament decide bad been changed from what they were in Earl Ganes time, the matter. . . . . . I will vote for the repeal of the act which ex- Then, Sir HENRY went out of office rather than support one of tends the duration of Parliaments to seven years. . . . . I have read a the administrative plans of Ministers; but on his taking office great deal on the subject, and my impression is that the arguments in favour of under Lord MELBOURNE, he came under an implied if not express that my leaving office was in consequence of opposing the payment of five engagement, not to Note against the Ministry even on such a millions of the public moncy to Russia, believing the payment to be improper, purely scientific question as the Ballot ; the Cabinet opposition to the true cause of my quitting office was my unwillingness to bring forward which is as unnecessary and obtrusive as it is impolitic. New, of Estimates such as the Ministry approved of, believing them to be improper and this engagement, by which he was fettered in the performance of such as I could notsvote for. . . . . 1Ie was utterly opposed to military

his duty to his constituents, Sir

went than in it. . . . . Ile must have time to consider the question of warning. Nothing passed at the time of his reelection to induce abolishing Church Estabeshments altogether."—Speech at Dundee, 8th the Dundee Liberals to suppose that their Member would be less April 1833. independent under Lord MELBOURNE than under Earl GREY. "I think Ministers should have looked to the Lords as possessing a power In November 1836, we again find Sir HENRY PARNELL at which ought not to be submitted to in this country. . . . . 1 proposed a

Dundee; having in the mean while again absented himself from The military establish-

the Ballot-division, and voted in favour of Military Flogging. tive to the Septennial Act, I voted in the minority for a repeal of it. As to His reception on that occasion proved, that among a large num- the Ballot, I voted for its adoption in cases of election. I trust that, having her of his constituents dissatisfaction with his couduct had been given these explanations, you will see that I have done all I undertook to do very much 'increased. There was, however, an impression that when Iliad the honour of being retained your Represeutative."—Speech at he would in future act a more independent part : there was indeed "So far from having changed my opinion concerning the Ballot, I consider a very general belief at that time, sedulously encouraged by cer- the arguments in favour of it have been confirmed by the experience of every tam n persons connected with the Government. that the policy of thing that occurrent at the last general election."—Letter to Dundee Political "Open questions" would he adopted; and Sir HENRY obtained a Union, in July 1835. reluctant forgiveness.* "Whenever be found the Government bringing forward a bad measure, he • The existing relation. between Sir flexile PARNELL and the Dundee November 1836. constituency may be illustrated by the following extracts from his speeches and [Does Sir I IEN air think the Church Bills of last session and this session letters, copied from the file of the Spectator, good measures? Is the proposed coercion of Canada a good measure? Are the "1 think all pensions and rewards of every kind should be given in this way Army Estimates lower now than in 1833?] No change, however, has taken place either in the policy of Ministers or in the conduct of Sir HENRY PARNELL. Sir HENRY has again staid away from the Ballot-division ; thus leaving Dun- dee unrepresented on a question which the great majority in that town take a strong interest in. The correspondence to which we alluded at the commencement of this statement, is the result of his absence. Sir HENRY has the old excuse only to offer; and

refers to the resolution of the Political Union in 1835, that on

• FRUITS OF THE WHIG-TORY POLICY: that, the firat occasion, his absence was justifiable,—as if it were SIR HENRY PARNELL and the Dundee Radical Reform ASSOCia- a permission to sin for the remainder of his term as Member for don figure in the newspapers this week as disputants ; the sub- Dundee: forgetting that the MELBOURNE Ministry, for the sake of ject being Sir HENav's Parliamentary conduct, and especially hie which the lame apology was admitted, is not now so precious and abseece from the recent Ballotdivision. The Paymaster of the respectable in the eyes of Reformers as it was in 1835. The Forces has by no means the best of the dispute ; for the Dundee Radical Refortn Association no longer admit the old vote of the Radicals, being consistent and straightforward persons, expect from Political Union as an apology for Sir HENav's subsequent con- their Representative uniform support to Liberal measures m Par- duct,—they declare that they have been deceived, and warn Sir liament; whereas Sir HENRY PARNELL votes against, or refuses HENRY that they shall look out for his successor. to vote in favour of, measures which be approves of, rather than Mischievous and melancholy are the consequences of the course oppose the Whig Ministers, with whom he is connected. He is taken by Sir HENRY PARNELL. In the first place, it has revived

therefore crippled in his defence. to a great extent the old feeling of distrust in public men. Dur-

sir HENav PARNELL appears to forget, that although his re- ing a long political career, Sir HENRY PARNELL had established putation as a man of businees and a financial reformer, and his a character for emisistency and independence, unswerving and excellent personal character, had procured him the respect of the indomitable. But since he joined Lord MELBOURNE he has Dundee Reformers, yet that it was his INDEPENDENCE, exhibited swerved. He is no longer in possession of the entire coutidence jo his retirement from the GREY Admininistration, which mainly of his constituents and of the country. It is only when out of recommended him to their choice as the successor of Mr. KIN- office (as he told the Political Unionists of Dundee) that he will LOCH. At the great Dundee meeting in April 1833, when Sir vote for all the measures to which his pledges and the popular HENRY first met his present constituents, he informed them, that sympathies stand engaged. Were Sir HENRY PARNELL less although he nominally went out of office on the Russian-Dutch respectable, and less pure as regards money matters, it would Loan question, when Mr. Hume voted that "black was white" to be said of him that he will only vote according to his principles save the Ministry, the real efficient cause of his resignation of the and pledges when nothing is to be had by voting against them. post of Secretary at War was his " unwillingness to bring forward When such a man misrepresents his constituents and shrinks Estimates such as the Ministry approved of." This, thought the from the support of his declared opinions, on whom, it will be disinterested Dundee constituency, is the man for us. Here is a said, can we rely ? truly independent statesman, one upon whom we can rely to vote A second bad consequence of Sir HENRY PARNELL'S refusal with or against Ministers in reference solely to their measures. to support the Ballot, and his abandonment of perfectly inde- ht this same meeting, Sir HENRY PARNELL pledged himself to pendent action in Parliament, is the excuse his dereliction affords vote for the repeal of the Septennial Act, and spoke in favour of to others. See, they say, we have done nothing worse than this the Ballot, a reduction in the Army Estimates, and the abolition distinguished patriot and highminded gentleman—we only did as of Military Flogging—declaring that he considered the " military Sir HENRY PARNELL did; and who can doubt his honesty or opinions on winch the opinion of the necessity of flogging was discretion ? founded as good for nothing." In the full belief that he would In the third place, as regards Sir HENRY personally, the act up to these professions, Sir HENRY PARNELL was returned for course he has thought fit to adopt will be injurious. Such

Dundee, without opposition. and almost without expense. is the high esteem in which his general character is held in

In November 1833, after the close of the session, Sir HENRY Dundee, that we do not suppose he will be rejected at the next dined in Dundee, and gave an account of his Parliamentary con- election ; but he will never be again returned in his absence, and duct ; taking credit for having opposed the Ministerial Army without cost. There will be no more unopposed, free elections. Estimates' for having voted for the repeal of the Septennial Act, The seat will be contested. There will be beartburning, trouble, and for the Ballot. The confidence of the Reformers of Dundee expense, and disunion amon g Reformers ; by which, perchance, " the in the fidelity and consistency of their Member was, if possible, Tory enemy " will profit. This consideration ought to weigh with a augmented. prudent person like Sir HENRY PARNELL. It is a pity that he But in 1835, Sir HENRY PARNELL became Lord MELBOURNE'S did not take courage, vote for the Ballot, as another official, Lord Paymaster of the Forces; his Parliamentary conduct assumed a CHARLES FITZROY, did; and (if he thought that necessary) offer different complexion ; and from that time to the present he has his resignation. Durst Lord MELBOURNE have accepted it ? We been losing ground in Dundee. On the dissolution that followedthe think not. Sir HENRY PARNELL would have reestablished his death of old Lord SPENCER, he was elected in his absence, and reputation, and been alike secure of his office and of his unop- without cost, to the PEEL Parliament. On his acceptance of office, posed return for Dundee. he was again elected, and on the same terms—so honourable to the If it be not altogether too late to offer another warning to Lord Dundee constituency and himself. In 1835, Mr. GROTE proposed MELBOURNE, we would bid him reflect, whether a policy which the Ballot ; and the name of Sir HENRY PARNELL was not found threatens such a man as Sir HENRY PARNELL with the loss of among the Ayes. The Political Union of the town called him to the representation of the second commercial town in Scotland, account for his absence; and Sir HENRY grounded his defence wherein real Reformers greatly preponderate, can be safe or on the policy of not dividing the Ministerial forces at that very honourable for a Ministry which pretends to be " Liberal ? " critical period. The Political Union agreed that his absence, With w hat face can the Premier expect Reformers to make sa- meter the peculiar condition of the Ministry, was " justifiable ;" crifices in support of the Administration, when it is seen that every but expressed their opinion that the practice of making a Minis- independent man suffers in character and popularity by his con- then appeared, however, for the first time, that Sir HENRY PAR- —in every instance, Ministers should come before Parliament fairly, state the NELL'S notions as to the duty of a member of the Government reasons which exist, say how much should be given, and let Parliament decide bad been changed from what they were in Earl Ganes time, the matter. . . . . . I will vote for the repeal of the act which ex- Then, Sir HENRY went out of office rather than support one of tends the duration of Parliaments to seven years. . . . . I have read a the administrative plans of Ministers; but on his taking office great deal on the subject, and my impression is that the arguments in favour of

the Ballot preponderate Although it appeared at the time,

under Lord MELBOURNE, he came under an implied if not express that my leaving office was in consequence of opposing the payment of five engagement, not to Note against the Ministry even on such a millions of the public moncy to Russia, believing the payment to be improper, purely scientific question as the Ballot ; the Cabinet opposition to the true cause of my quitting office was my unwillingness to bring forward which is as unnecessary and obtrusive as it is impolitic. New, of Estimates such as the Ministry approved of, believing them to be improper and this engagement, by which he was fettered in the performance of such as I could notsvote for. . . . . 1Ie was utterly opposed to military

o

HENRY PARNELL had given no tie thought that the Bishops were better out of Pal ha-

flgging

went than in it. . . . . Ile must have time to consider the question of warning. Nothing passed at the time of his reelection to induce abolishing Church Estabeshments altogether."—Speech at Dundee, 8th the Dundee Liberals to suppose that their Member would be less April 1833. independent under Lord MELBOURNE than under Earl GREY. "I think Ministers should have looked to the Lords as possessing a power In November 1836, we again find Sir HENRY PARNELL at which ought not to be submitted to in this country. . . . . 1 proposed a

Dundee; having in the mean while again absented himself from The military establish- reduction of 10,009 men (in the Army) meats of the country are as high as ever. . . . On the question relit-

the Ballot-division, and voted in favour of Military Flogging. tive to the Septennial Act, I voted in the minority for a repeal of it. As to His reception on that occasion proved, that among a large num- the Ballot, I voted for its adoption in cases of election. I trust that, having her of his constituents dissatisfaction with his couduct had been given these explanations, you will see that I have done all I undertook to do very much 'increased. There was, however, an impression that when Iliad the honour of being retained your Represeutative."—Speech at Dundee, 1501 November 18:33. he would in future act a more independent part : there was indeed "So far from having changed my opinion concerning the Ballot, I consider a very general belief at that time, sedulously encouraged by cer- the arguments in favour of it have been confirmed by the experience of every tam n persons connected with the Government. that the policy of thing that occurrent at the last general election."—Letter to Dundee Political "Open questions" would he adopted; and Sir HENRY obtained a Union, in July 1835. reluctant forgiveness.* "Whenever be found the Government bringing forward a bad measure, he would at once vote against it, and abandon office."--Speech at Dundee, 144 constituency may be illustrated by the following extracts from his speeches and [Does Sir I IEN air think the Church Bills of last session and this session letters, copied from the file of the Spectator, good measures? Is the proposed coercion of Canada a good measure? Are the