TORY LIBELS ON THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

LORD WHARNCLIFFE told the Yorkshire Tories assembled at Penistone, the other day, that the House of Commons was not looked upon with respect by the country. He said-

" The wealth and intelligence of London is not represented ; neither is the wealth and intelligence of the great parties of this country. Demagogues and flatterers of the People have pushed msasures forward.; and are, in point of fact, the rulers of the House, and the rulers of the Government."

The Reverend JOSHUA KING, a Tory parson and pluralist, (who, it appears, was tried in 1820 for attempting to poison the game on Sir THOMAS STANLEY'S Cheshire estate, and acquitted through a flaw in the indictment merely) thus spoke of the majority of the House of Commons, at a grand Conservative dinner at Chester, on the 9th instant- " Such was the execration and abhorrence with which be contemplated the conduct of every one who voted for or approved of the Irish Church Spolia- tion Bill, that he declared he would not trust himself in company with any of them, except on two conditions,—the one was, that he should be allowed to wear his hat all the time, lest some of them should filch it ; the other, that he should be permitted to go amongst them without any money in his pocket, lest some of thent should steal his purse."

It is not long since the Standard represented the Liberal majo- rity to be chiefly composed of paupers, who were to be found regularly in their places in the House of Commons, because it was an object with them to get a warm room in cold weather; it hereas the Tories were men of literature, leisure, and wealth, and liable to be seduced from their Parliamentary duties by the charms of society and the fascinations of ladies of rank. The tone of the Tory press and of the orators of the party is pretty uniform on this point. They arrogate to themselves the exclu- sive possession of rank, wealth, and intelligence. With respect to intelligence, it will not be easy for the Tories to make their boasted superiority appear. It would be absurd to deny to the Tory party the possession of many men of talent and extensive acquirements; but it is rather unfortunate for their reputation for political sagacity, that their course for a consi- derable period has been downward, and that their leader scarcely opens his mouth without declaring himself "bound to admit that the time has arrived" for passing some measure which for the last twenty years he has denounced as ruinous, and subver- sive of the Constitution, or for giving up some position which the increasing intelligence of the age no longer suffers him to maintain. Lord WHARNCLIFFE avows that the Tories have been injured by their own blunders in tactics, and especially by re- fusing to support CANNING and WELLINGTON in thew Liberal measures; and yet he presumes to decry the intelligence of those who saw the mistakes of Lord. WHARNCLIFFE'S friends, and put-.

sued an opposite, and as his Lordship himself allows, on several vitil questions, a wiser and more politic course.

It is not worth while to pursue this part of the subject. Al- though the Tories have been compelled to abolish the Test and Corporation Acts, and pass bills for emancipating the Catho- lics, and retbrming Parliament and the Municipalities, and although they confess in so doing that their antagonists were right and themselves wrong, yet no doubt Lord WHARNCLIFFE Will still consider himself a wiser politician than Mr. GROTE, and the Duke of NEWCASTLE more intellectual than Earl FITZWILL1 Alf. But when the Tories run down the rank and wealth of the majo- rity in the House of Commons, they give us the opportunity of meeting them on more tangib!e ground. We utterly repudiate the idea of a man's fitness for filing the office of a Representative of the People being measured by the distinctions of rank or the reputation for wealth ; but the Tories endeavour to alarm the weak and ignorant by asserting that the Ministerial majority is made up of needy persons, who, living themselves from hand to month, have no interest in the preservation of property, and of low-born creatures who are cursed with an envious jealousy and hatred of men of rank and family. To prove that the Tories are guilty of a gross perversion of fact (as is their custom) when they use this language, it will be only necessary to subject the ma- jority to a kind of analysis— to show what its composition really is in respect of station in society and reputed means of living. For this purpose, we take the decision on Lord Jon x RUSSELL'S famous resolution, which immediately preceded the breaking-up of the last Tory Ministry. No perfectly accurate list, we believe, has ever been published of the names of those who voted on this question ; but the list in the Spectator of April the 4th is sufficintly accurate to answer the present purpose ; although some of the Members have since died, or been removed to the Upper House.

First, then, we find among the majority the names of the fol- lowing gentlemen, all of whom are connected immediately and closely with the nobility; not a few of them being eldest sons and brothers of the most ancient and wealthy families in the British Peerage.

Viscount Acheson Hon. Charles Grey Viscount Andover Lord Robert Grosvenor Sir George Anson Hon. D. G. Hallyburton J. Barham Hon. Edward Howard F. T. Baring Colonel R. Howard A. IV. Beauclerk Viscount Howick Earl of Belfast Earl of Kerry Hon. C. F. Berkeley H. Lambton Hon. F. Berkeley J. A. S. Mackenzie Hon. G. Berkeley Hon. Fox Maule J. Bowes Viscount Milton D. Browne Hon. A. Moreton Hon. Pierce Butler Viscount Morpeth

George Byng Hon. E. L. Mostyn

W. F. Campbell F. W. Mullins Hon. G. Cavendish F. Paget Hon. C. C. Cavendish Hon. C. A. Pelham Viscount Clements Hon. J. B. Ponsonby E. B. Clive Lord John Russell Lord Arthur Conyngliam Lord C. J. Fox Russell Hon. William Cowper Lord Russell Lord Dalmeny Lord Seymour J. E. Denison Hon. R. J. Smith IV. J. Denison R. V. Smith T. S. Duncombe J. A. Smith Hon. T. Dundas Hon. H. T. Stanley Hon. J. C. Dundas Lord Dudley Stuart Viscount Ebrington Lord Patrick J. Stuart Earl of Euston Earl of Surry

Hon. Newton Fellowes J. H. Talbot

Hon. R. Fitzgibbon C. R. M. Talbot Lord Charles Fitzroy Hon. Colonel Westenra Charles Grant Hon. H. R. Westenra Sir George Grey C. P. Villiers

There are 68 names in this section : very many of them Lord WHARNCLIFFE will acknowledge to be men of older families and greater wealth, if not more intelligence, than himself. These are a sample of your spoliators.

The following gentlemen are all of them believed to be in the possession of fixed independent incomes. They are not soldiers or sailors, lawyers, merchants, bankers, or publicists: they are vulgarly called "independent gentlemen;" having "places" in the country, and living upon their rents. R. Alston E. J. Littleton J. Angerstein W. Long Sir J. Astley R. Macleod H. W. Barron IV. N. Macnamara G. S. Barry J. Maher T. IV. Beaumont T. Martin Sir J. De Beauvoir P. Methuen R. M. Bellew S. W. Molesworth Sir P. Bellew Sir R. Musgrave R. Bernal Sir R. Nagle M. J. Blake C. O'Brien W. Blatnire W. S. O'Brien Sir C. R. Blunt Maurice O'Connell J. J. Bodkin M. J. O'Connell Sir W. Brabazon O'Connor Don E. Buller R. M. O'Ferrall Sir F. Burdett L. Oliphant N. Burton W. Ord J. B. Carter W. H. Ord Otway Cave R. A. Oswald E. S. Cayley R. Oswald P. Chalmers J. Parrott M. L. Chapman Sir H. Parnell Sir W. Clayton General Palmer N. IV. Coll), rae E. IV. Pendarves

T. H. Cookes G. R. Phillips

W. S. Crawford C. M. Phillips S. Crompton IV. Pinney H. B. Curteis R. Power E. B. Curteis J. Power A. Dennistoun Sir R. Pryce F. L. Dykes P. Pryse H. Elphinstone J. C. Ramsdell

J. Edwardes T. S. Rice

R. Etwall C. Rippon 0. Evans D. Roche J. N. Fazakerley J. B. Rooper J. Fergus G. 1'. Serope R. Ferguson Colonel Seale

R. C. Fergusson E. R. Sheldon

N. Fitzsimon Sir R. Simeon Sir IV. J. Folkes B. Smith D. Gaskell A. Speirs W. I). Gillon A. 0. Spiers

T. Gislionie E. J. Stanley

J. Gully R. Steuart

II. D. Goring Sir G. Strickland

R. Gordon E. Strutt H. Grattan C. Tennyson J. Grattan C. I'. Thomson B. hall C. H. Tracey II. Handley Sir W. L. Trelawney W. Harland C. K. K. Tynte E. Heneage C. J. K. Tynte Sir R. Heron J. H. Vivian T. L. Hodges Major Vivian T. Ifodges C. A. Walker E. Holland R. Wallace K. Hoskins H. G. Ward P. Howard S. White J. Hume G. Wilbraham

IV. Hutt W. A. Williams

R. Hurst Sir J. Williams E. B. King Sir II. Williamson

H. Labour:here Sir T. E. Winnington

W. G. Langton C. Wood J. Lee Lee W. B. Wrightson C. S. Lefevre Sir J. Wrottesley T. B. Lerinard T. Wyse E. C. Lister The above list comprises 139 conspirators against the rights of property and the Constitution—men whom Parson KING describes as thieves and pickpockets. Next we take the members of the Army and Navy; there arc a round dozen of them,—all, no doubt, after the fashion of the "services," ready to aid in any plan for establishing a democracy.

Sir Charles Adam C. R. Fox Sir Edward Codrington A. Leith Hay J. P. Chichester G. R. Pechell Sir R. Donkin Matthew Sharpe De Lacy Evans Sir E. T. Troubridge Sir R. C. Ferguson J. IVenayss

Then come the lawyers, 25 in number; many of them men of handsome private fortunes, independent of their professional gains.

H. A. Aglionby D. O'Connell C. Buller A. C. O'Dwyer Sir J. Campbell M. O'Loughlett F. L. Dykes L. Perrin IV. F. Finn J. S. Poulter C. Fitzsimon 0. Pryme D. W. Harvey R. M. Rolfe J. H. Hawkins T. N. Talfourd J. Kennedy H. IV. Tattered J. Loch IV. Tooke Dr. Lushington T. Wilde A. H. Lynch J. Wilks J. A. Murray Our next list gives the names of 53 merchants, bankers, and manufacturers—perhaps tho most useful set of men in the House : many of them arc known to possess vast wealth. P. Ainsworth C. Ilindley T. Att wood J. Ilmnpliery J. Bagshaw J. Mactaggart E. T. Bainbridge S. .Marjoribal ks A. Bannerman IV. Marshall D. Barclay H. Marsland • E. G. Barnard J. 31‘Calice T. Bewes J. Parker R. Biddulph J. Pattison J. Brocklehurst J. Pease W. B. Brodie M. Phillips J. Brotherton R. Potter W. W. Burden J. RamsIottom IV. Clay A. IV. Roberts Sir C. Cockerell G. R. Robinscn J. Collier IV. Roche

IV. T. Copeland J. Rundle

W. Crawford J. Scholefield L. Dobbin P. M. Stewart

J. Fielden R. Sullivan

J. Fort T. Thornely

Thus it appears, that out of 320 names, 207 are those of the aristocracy and landowners; 53 are merchants and bankers ; 25 are barristers and solicitors ; 12 officers in the Army or Navy ; and of the remaining 21, we are by no means prepared to say that some would not be fairly classed among the landholders,—Mr. BAINES, Mr. Bin', and Sir S. WHALLEY, for instance, may very probably have more than a nominal qualificatioa in land in addi- tion to their other property. Now, upon looking over the names classified as above, does it not strike the reader, that the idea of this body joining in any violent or spoliating measures is perfectly ridiculous? Does not the imputation come with exceedingly bad grace from the Tory party ? Has not Lord EBRINGTON a motive as strong as Lord Chandos to preserve property from danger? Is not Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR as likely to be jealous of any attack upon it as Lord Ossulston Is Mr. AIARSHALL under more powerful temptation to turn" Destructive" than HORACE Twiss?—or Mr. BIDDULPH than LE C H MERE CHARLTON ?-0r Mr. PATT ISO N than PETER BORTHWICK ?-01' Mr. CAYLEY than Colonel SIBTHORPE ?—or Mr. ROBERT FERGUSON than Mr. HALSE ?—or Mr. E.. J. STANLEY than Mr. Kum?

The Tory papers are perpetually referring to a trial with a fire- insurance company in which Mr. WA KLEY was concerned : how far back should we have to search the records of the Courts at West- minster before we found the name of BARING WALL? There are others of the Liberal party whom the Tory newspapers are in the habit of throwing dirt on, and abusing by name. The Standard scarcely ever mentions certain members of the Liberal side with- out some offensive appellation, and, by allusion, ripping up stories against _their plicate characters, of very doubtful authenticity at the best. The Standard, however, should be aware that this is a game which two can play at ; and that if the money transactions of public men are to be dragged into question for the purpose of affixing a stigma on the party to which they belong, the Tories are liable to be wounded most severely through the sides of one of the Standard's especial favourites.

G. Grote R. Walker J. Guest H. Warburton

B. Hawes J. Wigney J. Heatbcote W. Williams

R. G. Heathcote M. Wood C. J. Hector

Lastly, we have the names of 21 gentlemen who, we believe, do not come under any of the above denominations, and cannot be considered men of property. With respect to their intelligence, it will, with scarcely an exception, be admitted by Lord WHARN- CLIFFB himself

E. Baines Morgan O'Connell T. fish J. O'Connell D. C. Brady F. O'Connor

Dr. BOB Ting J. A. Roebuck

J. S. Buckingham D. Ronayne E. L. Bulwer E. Ruthven H. Bulwer E. S. Ruthven W. Cobbett C. A. Tulk E. Divett T. Wakley J. T. Leader Sir S. Whalley C. Lushington