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      THE COMING ELECTIONS . A very general impression seems to prevail that the composition of the new Parliament . will , after all , very . much resemble that of the old . Should the event realise such an anticip ation , we should be very sony for it ; for we must be excused for . saying we tliink a worse Parliament , for all practical purposes of progress , " we have never had . It was born in a passion , it has lived in a dream , and it will . die'in a row , without dignity or pity . Few and short have been the days of the years of jts pilgrimage ; and now that it is about to vanish out of sight , nobody even pretends to consider it any great loss . JBut what are we to have in its stead ? As far as we can see , Mumbo-Jumbo seems to be immortal . Here and there a feather or two may be dropped , and youth may quietly replace age ; for even oligarchy has its times of moulting . lint the process takes place noiselessly and almost imperceptibly . There is a slight fluttering of county plumage , and ; here and there things Look rough for a week or two ; but by the time the appointed period of change is over all will look smooth and unruffled again , nnd wo shall recognise the old bird of privilege with its Whig and Tory mottling , just as it was before . Nor does there appear to be a likelihood of any very serious change nil the borough representation . A contest is threatened " in the City . Two thousand electors liave called upon Mr . Thomas J 3 aring and Lord Stanley , with a view to oust two out of the four Whig representatives of London . It cannot be denied that tho head of the house of Baring stands facile pnnoeps in personal fitness to represent tho great central mart of national industry . Fifteen years ago hu was inducud by Sir Robert Pool to conio forward ns a candidate on Protectionist principlos , and was defeated by the extraordinary exertions of tho An ti-Corn-Law League . We lmve hoard it said that ho never fbrgavo tho then Prhno Minister for having lured him into such a contest in defence of principles whicli ilia Minister had oven then resolved to abandon . Is o doubt lie would like to rovorso tho sentence now . If tho Liberals hold togothor , wo doubt tho possibility of suocosh on the part of tho Conservatives . In other metropolitan districts some poruonnl changes are anticipated—not always , perhaps , fur the oottur . Sir Charlos Napior is threatened with parliamentary extinction by Mr ., Apsluy Pollatt , and Mr . Cox may , perhaps , be run down by Sir Morton Pcto ; whothor Mr . JDoulton or Mr . . Tones is destined to replace Mr . Williams in Lamboth , does , not ns yet ni > pear . People ask why that sturdy

      veteran of the Parsimony Corps -should retire so soon . The answer given by one witty friend of ours , was , we believe , not far from the truth , ' namely , that he felt himself sinking under the weight of Joseph Hume ' s , mantle , which he had rashly undertaken to wear . Of the eighteen metropolitan members , the only one who has proved to be utterly deaf and dumb , is Mr . Robert Hanbufy . Each and all of his colleagues haveduring the last two years , done , or tried to

      , do , something to Sustain the character they undertook to perform . ¦• "Lord Shaftesbury ' s nominee for Middlesex is a solitary and miserable exception , answering to the well-known description ^ iven of a certain learned functionary when in the House of Common ? , and who invariably went by the name of " The heavy bigot . " Why a county like Middlesex should submit to be bunged down by order from Grosvenor-sriuarCj we confess ourselves unable to . understand .

      No member of the rival Whig and Tory Cabinets is threatened with serious opposition There is a well-known freemasonry in these matters between the chiefs of the contending factions . Sir George Grey' and Sir John Pakington are , indeed , respectably unopposeable in the nomination boroughs tlicy sit ibr ; but most of their noble nnd right honourable associates on either side of the Speaker ' s chair might be put to the cost of a contested election . To . euard against the possibility of being called upon ior such a sacrifice of their private purse and convenience , the ministers that are and the ministers that hope to'be , have agreed

      to pair off—Mr . Pisraeli with Sir Cornewall Lewis , Lord Palmerstoh with Lord John Manners , Mr . Estcourt with Mr . Vernon Smith , and Sir Bulwer Lytton with Mr . Labouchere . Whether the Attorney-General will have as little to do in East Suffolk as Richard . Uetholl is likely to have at Wolverhampton , we do not know ; but for otir parts we should be extremely sony to see either of them excluded from the new House of Commons . The subordinates do not , of course , come in for the benefit of the mutual protection rule . Mr . Seymour Fitzr " eraldone of the . most , rising men on the

      Conser-, vative side , and , we must be permitted to add , one of the most useful and honourable public servants , is said to be threatened witJi a contest at Hprsliam ; while Mr , Lowe has already paid the penalty of his anti-Reform ebullitions at Kidderminster , by being driven ignoininiously from the field by Mr . Huddleston . Very few of the g reat towns are likely to be contested . Liverpool , is content with one and one ; not so Leeds , which buckles on its armour , and prepares to do battle in rig ht earnest for the cause of progress . Birmingham , Sheffield ,. Newcastle , Glasgow , Bristol , Coventry , and Manchester are said to be resolved to remain as they

      are . At Sal ford there will be a sharp fight between Mr . Massey and Mr . Henry Ash . worth . Both are excellent men in their way , and it is a great pity they should bo pitted against each other . At Bath , Sir Arthur Elton has been hustled by the Palmerstonians , ostensibly because of his vote against Lord John Russell ' s amendment tho othev evening , but , in reality , because he wasono of the riiutineers on the Conspiracy Bill . There . is no mistajkc about the spirit of exclusivcnoss nnd intolerance which actuates tho management of elections under the Cambridge House regime . ^ No man , who is not a lordling or a flunkey , will be

      permitted to stand as a Liberal candidate , if Sir \ V . Hayter can prevent it . Somo vory gross eases of this kind have come within our knowledge , but the time for exposing them is notyot . Mr . Cobdon , we are . happy to say , is certain to bo re turn od for Rochdale . Jluddor ^ lield seema determined to enj oy a little longer the ignominy it earned for itself by his rejection in , 1857 . The Liberals of Cambrid ge h < avo boon squabbling among themsulvps , and losing a fair opportunity of retrieving their defeat of two years ui / o . If anything could havo recalled . them

      to a sense of the position in wlnoh they lmve placed themselves by their unfortunate divisions , it would havo boon the fact that lust week tho Managers of Little Kyder-struot had tho coolness to send them as a candidate tho Honourable Colonel Veivker , who was , as a Tory , defeated nt Yarmouth lust general election , but whom Cambridge Houso has sinoo enlidtod in its irregular corps . As wo do not allbct to bo up In the doatl knowledge of tho political turf ; wo shall hazard no conjectures ' tut to tho probablo gains and lorwes of tho coming racu for power . Wo only wish that wo oould

      see a greater probability of the infusion of new blood and popular strength , and a less stupid and superstitious hankering on the part of constituencies after effete pretensions and aristocratic names .

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      WILL FRANCE DISARM ? Tiik Ministerial explanations promised last night have been deferred till Monday . Reasons of state policy arc darkly hinted for this postponement ; and Lord Palmerston is too -shrewd a politician to object . It lias oozed out , in a variety of ways , that the long-pending negotiations liave reached this point— 'that Austria , feeling her strength , and knowing that her antagonist is not ready , requires , before she enters into a European Congress , that France and Piedmont should disarm . There is a

      certain aspect of reasonableness about this which it is not easy to gainsay . If the Congress should fail in settling terms of general accommodation , as it is very likely to do , the next six weeks would just have sufficed to give France time to complete her preparations for war . Cavalry cannot be moved in larger masses until the spring . grass is . grown ; and many other items of the calculations necessary for success also req uire to be looked closely into . Austria says , 'Qf you insist , on .-fighting , fight now : if you are not ready , that is your look-out ; we are ,

      and we shall not ibrego our advantage . " On the other hand . Piedmont feels that for her to consent to disarmament would be fatal . The moral effect of such a step throughout Italy would be irretrievable . The people have everywhere shown great selfcontrol , patience , and-forbearance , it is true ; but they , have only been kept in hand , as it is called , by the positive assurance that , however cautious and slow the steps ¦ iii ' advance , there are to be this time none backwards . The first move of a retrogressive character would dash the high hopes

      now entertained , and cast doubt and suspicion on the future intentions of those who have undertaken the responsibility of leadership . A clear perception of these consequences is probably ^ one of the ' strongest- . motives' that inspire Austria to insist-on ; her demand . If Louis Napoleon be sincere in his professions to M . Cavour , the same considerations will ' -induce him to counsel resistance to the concession sought . All he can do is to parley and argue as long as he is allowed to do

      , so , in order that lie may gain time , and meanwhile hasten forward his own " preparations . _ Various partial schemes of disarming have been , it is said , discussed during the last week , tlirough the intervention of tho mediating Powers ; but , if we are rightly informed , without coming to any accord . Every day , in point of fact , the dUlicuIty becomes more and more insoluble by means of diplomacy , and we own our anticipations are gradually settling down in the direction we least desire .

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      JAMES OF MAUYLEBONE . What shall be done unto the man whom Maryiebone delights to honour ? What honour can be too great ; what reverence too profound ; what pi-aisc too hyperbolical ? Seats for any borough in England are at his disposal . Premierships and Chancellorships arc kept open , ponding his reluctant choice . Popular ovations , festal banquets , and public testimonials are a mntter of course . All this , however , is nothing , ami Maryleboiio will not bo content unless the whole country , falling prostrate before the idol of tho hour , join in the new confession of faith—that there is but one Marylobone , and James in its Prophet .

      Nebuchadnezzar required all men to full down ana worship the image that the Icing had sot up . Our case is even a harder one tlian that of the subject Israelites . At any rate , tho idol of the King or the Chaldeans was a golden one ; but wo havo to adore an image of brass . Alas ! the npint ot Sliailrncli , Moshoch , and Abodnogo Jm « not descended on us . Wo mtiHt jwrlbreo bow down before the strange god of Mnry lobono , nnd shout hallelujah with the crowd . , . * . _ i . ¦ _ .. ! .. * 1 .... 1 nnnnnnivu On It JlUncrront who had conquered on u

      hun-A gonornl , droil battlo-fioldH—and nuvirr drawn hirt , sword , save in tho euiisu of right and justicso—an illustrious statesman , wI . ohc 1 UU Iwul ! not boon spent m vain , and who , in tho ovomngof hw days received * tho rowurd of life labour * in his country h reverence—a horo who l : ud miflurod in the cause of fVoodom—could none of them havo boon huilod with moro rapturous applause--or more uproarious welcome , than greeted Mr . julwm Juiiios at the oloso of his nhort Parliamentary

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      There is nothing- ' so- revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural auul- convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when nil tho world is by the very law of its creation in eternal pmyi-tss . —]) n . -Auxolb .

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      v _^ . v __ y - ——*—SATURDAY , APRIL . . 16 , 1859 .

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      OFFICE , NO . , CATHERINE-STKEET , STRAND , W . C .,

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      NOTICES TO COKTJE 3 PONDENTS . Ko notice cait- he taken of anonymous co » -espon < 1 enco Whatever is intended for insertion must be » n ^^ y <™ gE by tho name , and address of the wnter ^ not ntue 88 nnl > for ¦ publicatioii , but as a guarantee of his good iaith . 'llSssflilisii We cannot unrhrtake to return rejected communications .

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      SUBSCRrPTION TO " THE LEADER . " ONE GUINEA PER YEAR , UNSTAMPED , PKEPATD . ( Delivered Gratis ) . '

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      No . 473 / Ape . x . IS . 1859 . 1 THE LEADER . 497

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 16, 1859, page 497, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2290/page/17/