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SATURDAY.
Mr. ABERCROMRY'S reluctance to become a candidate for the Speak- ership has given way to his sense of ditty to the public, as we were sure from the first would be the ease. The subjoined correspondence be- tween him and Lord JOHN It essru. shows the motives which actuated the Liberals in calling upon Mr. ARERCROBIBY, and his reason for obey-
ing the call.
" Woburn Abbey, January 27, 1335.
MT DE111 ADERCRONBY was very sorry to find, from the different communi. rations %Melt 1 hate had a ith you. that you were so unwilling to comply with the desire of many Nlesubeis of the IIDUse ut I gnomons that you should be proposed for the Chair at the meeting of the new Parliament.
" Atter you had dreIiaed, however. I should have been myself reluctant to press on you a proposition which I found iwrsonally moweepteble. But when I tell yon that I have been urged train va thins 'porters. and in the strongest terms, to place before you the earnest 1C1b111.8 AM general ronottrrence of those whit whom you have been con- nected in public lib, that y1,111 should allow yourself to be put in nomination tor the Chair, I trust you a ill reconsider yourdecisin1i. Above all, I think you will be in- fluence.: by the argument I have to state, that they view the present election of a Speaker as a question not sulelt or individual preference, but of public principle; and they are convinced that iu order to try this question with the utmost advantage, it is
°fittest importance that yen sl lit at t decline this high honour, if the House should be willing to collier it upon ton. I roman', et er y ours most faithfully. "The Right lion. J. A bet crumb)." " J. Resszet." " Fenton's Hotel, January 29.
" MV DEAR LORD JOHN—My earnest desire to decline the honour Or being proposed as a candidate for the Chair, en the meeting of the new Parliament. has been so often and so strongly expressed to you and to othets, that 1 was iu hopes that it would hate been acquiesced io. " However painful it would have been to me to maintain my own opinion in opposi. tion to that of so neatly of nty friends. I should have atillensl to it, if the approaching contest had involved only tico.stion of p.-rsonal preference. As 1 ion now aware that the governing motive ot those alto a ish me to alter my decision. is a desire to viudieate a public plinciple, which they think it is their duty as Members oh' the House of Com- mon, to maintain. 1 feel that the indulgence of my own wishes would subject me to the charge of obstinacy. or of selfishness; and therefore, if the choice should fall on me, Blatt he ready to perform the duties of the office to the best of my ability. " I remain yours very hilly and faithfully, J. ABERCHOMBY." The Right Honourable Lord John Russell."
The Tories are enraged at the sure prospect of defeat which this announcement places before them. The Times cannot imagine what " principle" bus to do in the affair. This is very natural in the Times. But the Independent party support Mr. ABeaetioaiav on the principle that be is the better man fur the office, and that Sir CHARLES SUTTON, by his busy intrigues with the little clique of Tory Red 'rapists, has disqualified himself for the Chair of the Reformed Parliament. It is true that the Whigs and a large body of the Reformers committed the blunder—tbe fault—of electing Sir CHARLES SUTTON to the Speaker.
ship of the last Parliament ; but the way to atone for that fault is not to commit it over again.
The Monday Post vents half a column of personal' abuse on Mr. A BERCIIOMBY ; which gives us much pleasure, as it proves the soreness' and alarm of the Tories. Indeed it is intimated that their candidate will not st and at all. The Post says- " With respect to the issue of the contest, IF Sir Charles Manners Sutton sholld condescend to allow himself to he placed in competition with such a person as Mr. Abereromby, there can be no doubt. No House of Commons, no deliberative assembly that ever existed in the world, could hesi- tate for a moment between two such competitors."
The John Bull of Sunday last, threw out a similar hint. This may be a paving of the way for Sir CHARLES'S retirement ; but it may also be intended to throw the Reformers off their guard. This must not be. Let the English Reform leaders imitate the example of Mr. O'CoNsamt., who was to enforce at a public meeting in Dublin, yester- day, the necessity of all the Irish Liberal Members being in their places on the first day_of the session. The Tories, without doubt, will be all there.
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