The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-24 00:00:00

TH CAMBRIDGE UMIVEESITY ELECTION.

Observing that out of WOO voters who compose
the Cambridge University constituency, at least 4,50,1
are conservatives, and that only now, for the
first time, their organisation has failed, the Times
attributes the victory of Mr. Rope to the culla-
slum of his chnrchmanship. Influenced partly by
ecclesiastical polities, the great body of voters took, this
time, a way of their own—a way all the easier from the
fact that they were not called upon to be liberals, but only
"moderate and independent" conservatives. Impressed
with a sense of Mr. Beresford Hope's claims as an earnest
and zealous churchman of affinent means and estimable
character, they yielded to the attraction, and the enor-
mous mass of conservatism crumbled unexpectedly away.
The Telegraph sees in the result of the contest fresh
evidence of the declining power of the evangelical party
amongst the clerical graduates. A score of years ego the
mero suspicion of Tractarian proclivities would have been
sufficient to ruin any chances that a candidate for Cam-
bridge might possess. All the support of the liberals and
of the true-blue University tones would have availed
nothing, if the old Low Church feeling had been what it
used to be in the days when Simeon's influence was still
the ruling force at Cambridge.:

IRISII 11E901=1038.

The Post does not expect to see the House of Commons
Mullen itself with Lord Arthur Clinton's amendment.
Abstract assurances of opinion by no means constitute a
proper method of intervening between landlord and tenant.
In the case of Ireland, procedure by abstract resolution is
at this juncture especially objectionable. Of decla-
mation and orations, whether in the bowling style
of Mr. Train, or the more decent and moderate, but
equally unpractical, addresses of Mr. Maguire, we have had
more than enough ; and the Post thinks the house may dis-
miss Mr. Maguire's motion with an intimation that they
think the proper occasion for the discussion of the con-
dition of Ireland will be the presentation of some definite
and distinct measures ; and the house, if it thinks fit to
add that measures of that character ought to be propounded
at the earliest possible moment by the government, will
probably be supported generally by the opinion as well as
by the feeling of the country.

715 TOPICS.

The Daily New oonten4s that any inequality of repre-
sentation iu Scotland or in England should be redressed
by taking members from one part, and giving them
to the other. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has pro-
ceeded on the system of giving any extension demanded to
the great constihteneice which in any view are against him,
but of fighting tooth and nail to save the small boroughs,
In each of which ho has a possible supporter. Possibly,
his ingenuity may procure him a majority at the next
election. That majority will be only too happy to serve
his purposes and their own by carrying still further into
practice the method by which he hopes this session to
neutralise Scottish opposition to his favoured constituen-
cies. It is of immense importance, then, that the system
should at once be met, exposed, and defeated.

Hoping that Lord Derby will not feel obliged to retie
the Standard today again argues elaborately that it would
be the height of =wisdom to adopt an arbitrary rule by
which it would be decreed that in future the first minister
in the government must necessarily be a member of the
House of Common.. There are direct advantages, it con-
tends, in the exemption of the premier from the heavy
fatigues and absorbing duties of the Commons leader.
Conceive, says our contemporary, the absurdity of a
rule which, if Mr. Disraeli were lost to us, would call on
the Queen to form a conservative government of which
neither Lord Stanley nor Lord Cranborne could be the
chief. For whom would her Majesty send ? The liberals
would feel the same difficulty, though in another
form. They have two or three able commoners who may
develop into possible successors to Mr. Gladstone. But it
is very likely that no one of these would be so pre-eminent
as to oblige the others to serve under him ; and then
would be felt one of the peculiar advantages of the present
power of selecting a Premier from the Upper House,
namely, the willingness of able men to yield to superior
rank where they refuse to acknowledge superior ability,
and to accept as their chief one who is not and cannot be
their daily rival.
The Star must say that, if there is to be a tory party at
all, it is perfectly ridiculous to think of its having any
man but Mr. Disraeli to succeed Lord Derby as its =know-
leged leader. Only in a country of hereditary legislate=
could even Lord Stanley be thought of as leader by a prey
whom Mr. Disraeli is still willing to lead.
The Daily Revs points out the helplessness which sew
vocation has manifested ever since the revival of its masa
in our own times, and which has never been more marled
than it has hien in the present session. All that the Low=
House did was to ask and ob'sln leave to have the address
of the Lambeth conference read to them ; and in the
Upper House the debates were nothing but prolonged and
various admissions of failure.

The Tinto gives some scandalous details which have
been elicited by a Board of Trade inquiry respecting the
conduct of Deal salvors towards those whose property
they bare insisted to save. The result of the inquiry, so
far as it affects two American ships, has just been
published by order of the House of Common'.
About a year ago the committees of maritime
insurers at Paris and Havre signed a memorial
in which they represent that salvage as practised along
our coasts, borders closely on piracy, that French mariners
dread the sharklike propensities of English boatmen
almost as much as the rocks and the made, and that
English pilots are wont to make ruinous claims for having
'haply performed a professional duty. Mr. Montagu
Bare, who conducted the Inquiry, indicates as the proper
remedy the eetablishment of some local tribunal, which
would seams in a rammer), bat impartial manner the re-
muneratica equitably due to both parties.

The Devizes Advertiser 'Wes that $ oonaiderable
amber of MIR am about to be discharged from the hem
works et Westbury, in Wiltshire, cad that one of the flu,
oases is about to be slaved.

According to the Bow& AusfraZion Register Mr.
Underdone, of Adandde, els azpoeber of Australian birds
Ito Karam hes new be sank 36,000 pain of shell parrots,
1,000 palm of seshadoe peewees, 7,000 pain of Debra finches,
besides 'the eesialloce, niesples, and Port Lincoln lames
—allegetbse X 1 100,000 Mr& 9,000 birds an marked
ea Bea The 70,000 shell parrots ere this yeses (1867)
birds.

Some Fenian hist week visited Freshwater, in
the fele of Wight, sad lave attempted to adadabier the
salsa oath. Defeemation wee givea to she pass, emit
time deleedives 111111 pissed ca the teeth of the ifekkOZ. A
few daps dace the telegraph wires that onannelate with
Os mein bad teen the We of Wight ewe eng , nee fee
lama the thighbowited of Frethwatire .