THE GENERAL ELECTION AND AFTER.
LTo ens Emma or TICE "Srcurrroa."1 fire,—The General Election has passed, but its influence will endure. Daring recent years there has been a growing die- position to regard party polities with aversion, and party Politicians with distrust. In the last Parliament no fewer than two hundred and eighty-eight Members received titles, Orders, offioes of profit, or legal preferment. Nor is this all; In the quest of office and emolument men often prostituted great mental powers in effort to make the worse appear the better, and truth, honour, and patriotism were all sacrificed to the Moloch of political success. Under them circumstances it was said politics wares dirty game which honest men weeld do
well to avoid. Happily many of the electors realised the para- mount duty of effort to raise the tone of public life before it became too late, and one great lemon of the Election is the evidence it affords of a determination to supersede political opportunism, and the doctrine of the spoils to the viotor, by honest policy and capable administration. In short, this ter- rible war has had a bracing effect upon the national conetitu- tion, and public men whose only qualifioation lay in their ability to cause social disunion and personal hatred have been relegated to deserved obscurity. Burke once exelaimed "I must bear with inconveniences till they fester into crimes." It is the happy lot of our generation to witness a splendid effort to cleanse end ennoble our public life.—I am, Sir, dm..
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