ANATOMY OF THE NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS.
WE have to acknowledge a great number of communications on this subject, some of them conveying very useful information. In some of the later editions of No. 121, a few corrections were inserted ; but there still remain numerous minor inaccuracies, which we are solicitous to remove. It is our intention, as soon as we can test the information that daily reaches us from all quarters, to reprint the Tables, in a per. feet form, without subjecting our readers to an additional charge for the corrected lists. The important business of Parliament during the next month, and the space which its proceedings will occupy in our columns, will probably occasion a postponement of the reprint till after the ad- journment for the Christmas holidays. The intermediate time shall, however, be employed in the careful collation and investigation of the materials before us ; —and we need not repeat, that every sort of informa- tion, properly authenticated, will be received with a sincere desire to ex- hibit the truth.
The tabular form has restricted us to an abbreviated notation, which has excluded qualifying circumstances from the view—in some instances preventing us from pointing out where the influence is so divided that the patron can, without the risk of resistance, nominate the member, or where the influence is that of property or position, and there are others who could jointly resist, but who have habitually yielded to the higher influence.
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