REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH DERBYSHIRE.
IT has been rumoured, on the authority probably of some partisans of --M Oriesley the Inspired," that Mr. 0. J. VERNON has no iutention of
again offering himself as a candidate for Satoh Derbyshire! No doubt, Sir Rocsa—whose exaltation, by the way, from a litterateur into a senator, has only served to render him anti his perspirations the laugh- ing-stock of the country—would breathe more freely were that the
case; but we can assure him that Mr. VERNON will not allow the South Derbyshire course to be walked over at the next election. The ground for the report of that gentleman's retirement is a passage at the close of his address to his former constituents, printed in the Derby and Chesterfield Reporter of the 14th instant. Mr. VERNON, it is true, bids the electors "individually and collectively a cordial farewell ; " but it is only a temporary, not a final leave-taking; and the expressions, we are happy to learn, were not intended to bear the construction put upon them.
There are other passages in Mr. Vtatisois's address which make us regret his absence from the Legislature—especially when we remember who has replaced him. Mr. VERNON disavows his participation in the common error that the clergy alone compose the Church, or that as long as dangerous Ecclesiastical errors exist, the church of Christ and the church of England are convertible terms. He says truly, that as in Pagan and Jewish days, the cry was " The Temple, the Temple ! " it is now " The Church, the Church !" We admire also the manly style in which Mr. VERNON declares that the Corn-laws are " mo- rally wrong, politically unwise, and what is more, little calculated to effect the object for which they were framed." Deny this, if ye can, ye Derbyshire farmers, who with the corn-duty at 48s. are selling your wheat at 38s. a quarter. A duty of more than a hundred per cent. does not prevent this—with your rents—ruinously low price.
We do trust that next autumn, when we shall almost certainly have a new election, the Derbyshire constituency will remember the claims of their old Member, and not forget that the professions by which they were cajoled at the last election were powerless to prevent their treacherous Representatives from voting in favour of that Malt-tax which they were especially chosen to repeal.
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