Several of the supporters of Ministers in the last Parliament
have not been returned to this ; but we are at a loss to see tiny evidence of
dissatiefitction with Ministers in this circumstance. We see in it only the proof that the people of England have yet too little influence in the elections. The Reform Bill improved, but did not perfect the representation. The Boroughmongers, who returned a majority of the Representatives before the passing of the Reform Bill, svere not the people of England ; and the Tories, who, by dint of corruption, intimidation, and coercion, have succeeded in many of the counties, and in a number of small boroughs, cannot be identified with the people any more than the Boroughmongers with whom they made common cause. In all populous places, with hardly an exception, the Liberal candidates were successful. The Tories have in the small and venal boroughs so many garrisons throughout the country.—Morning Chroni. ck. [In the populous places alluded to by the Chronicle, with few exceptions, the Liberal candidates elected belong to that section of the House of Commons whose efforts to extend the influence of the people in the elections were uniformly defeated by the Whigs in conjunction with the Tories. They are, in short, Radicals. As to the " small and venal boroughs," the majority of them have nut returned Tories, but Whigs or Liberals.]
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