OMNIUM
PARLIAMENTARY AND ELECTIONEERING PAS AND FAUX PAS.—Lord J Russell was not in the house of commons on Saturday, during the debate on the reform bill. [Did his lordship receive a circular?] The papers account for his absence by ascribing it to fatigue. Sir R. Peel was also absent, and the same authority elegantly says "the baronet was sulky." Some of the Bath voters have burned in effigy their representative, because he voted against ministers in the Downton division. The independent electors of Okehampton have chosen two liberals, one saint, and one Tory, in the short space of a twelvemonth: this first specimen of annual Parliaments appears to have given a fllip to the suffrage at Okehampton. The bells at Petersfield were wagged into a funeral peal on the death of Lady Rottenborough, who died in St Stephen's last week.
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