The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-19 00:00:00

MR. GLADSTONE'S ADDRESS.

Mr. Gladstone yesterday issued the following
address to the electors of the southern division of
the county of Lancaster :
" Gentlemen,—l appear before you as a candidate
for the suffrages of your division of my native
county. Time forbids me to enlarge on the nu-
merous topics which justly engage the public in-
terest. I will bring them all to a single bead. You
are conversant—few so much so—with the legisla-
tion of the lass thirty-five years. You have seen,
you have felt its results. You cannot fail to have
observed the verdict which the country generally
has within the last eight days pronounced upon the
relative claims and positions of the two great
political parties, with respect to that legislation in
the put, and to the prospective administration of
public affairs. I humbly, but confidently, without
the least disparagement to many excellent persons
from whom I have the misfortune frequently to
differ, ask you to give your powerful voice in con-
firmation of that verdict, and to pronounce with
significance as to the direction in which you desire
the wheels of state to move. Before these words
can be read, I hope to be among you in the hives of
your teeming enterprise.-1 have the honour to be,
gentlemen, your most obedient and most bumble
servant, " W. E. GLADSTONE.
" Hawarden, July 18, 1865."

There was something, perhaps, of baulked
affection or rather of that exacting jealousy
which so easily turns to hate, in the conduct
of the University towards Mr. °Lannon&
These ecclesiastical coquettes make unendurable
wives. Oxford gave her heart to • great statesman, Last night Mr. Jas. Heywood and Mr. Henry
and then set to work to henpeck him to death, and Thompson, who were accomputied by Mr. B. N. Phillips,
to flirt to his face with allthe impetuosity of a widow. M.P., and Mr. G. G. Trevelyan, M.P., addressed as open-
There is something ludicrous in thi• fickleness ; air meeting in Union-square, Buy. Teo eight was very
but it is not always unattended with danger. At ! wet, but notwithstandieg this, about 6,000 or 8,000 per-
present the liberal minority in Convocation is un- sees werO pre°w:t /layout° of °°°fiden" is the espaid&tes
was cerrisd
represented ; though increasing in power and in- It may be mentioned (says the Manchester
fluence year by year, it has never asserted nor . 0.4424 as as illustration of the deep interest with
organized itself as a party. That minority will which the contest at Oxford has been watched through.
grow into a majority ; but it may be safely Pre- oat the United Kingdom, that some of the electors
dieted that until high and dry Toryism has ceased of the Wick Burghs haws been "in hopes that
to be the dominant creed in Convocation no Liberal in the event of being ousted, Mr. Gladstone might
statesman worthy of the name will permit himself be prevailed °PM" to contest that l'at against Mr. Laing.
The remote coostituency of Wick once afforded a refuge far
to occupy a seat of which a PEEL and a GLaratrows .
Mr. For, but it is to be hoped that the result of the polling
were not found worthy. os Thursday will reader it nnwecessary far the Chseeeller
Now, however, that the issue is decided of As Exchequer to travel further north tbs. liersoaskdre
we are more at ease in acknowledging that in search of a seat.