TOPICS OF THE DAY.
THE Parliamentary Tables which we published last week have produced a sensation ! No such attempt had previously been made to describe in detail the composition of the Lower House. A considerable number of errors have been pointed out by various correspondents ; some may even yet remain unnoticed. Their sources lay in the extreme inaccuracy of all the printed accounts of Parliament and public men, and in the impossibility of procur- ing, notwithstanding all our zeal and labour, oral evidence suffi- ciently ample from all the boroughs and counties of the United Kingdom. We are rather surprised that the amount of the mis- statements is so small. It does not in the slightest degree affect the truth of our general conclusions. The. next edition of the Tables.will, we trust, be found altogether correct. In the mean time, we refer our readers to the information derived from nu- merous correspondents. The other political document which we intended to publish in this number is postponed.
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