While just a few notables who connote (as Mr. Mill
calls it in his logic) for all sensible men a feeling of hysterical melancholy, have been returned, some of the highest worth have been rejected. In West Kent, Sir John Lubbock, who would have been one of the wisest and soundest choices for the new Parliament, was rejected by a very narrow majority (of 68) ; and in him Parlia- ment has lost a man of singular accomplishments, wide scientific knowledge, and great practical sagacity. The Marquis of Harting- ton was rejected, as we feared last week that he had been, in North Lancashire ; and in East Sussex, Lord Edward Cavendish shared his brother's fate. It is satisfactory, amidst so many Liberal losses in the counties, to find that Sir John Simeon retained his seat, with a considerable majority to spare, for the Isle of Wight. He will apparently be the only English Catholic elected for any English constituency in the new Parliament.
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