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London, England, 1868-02-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 24.

THE NEW MEMBER FOR CAMBRIDGE

UNIVERSITY.

Ma. DERE3TORD Hewes sufficiently easy victory
at Cambridge will surprise no ono who considers
the characteristics of the constituency and of their
dew member. His opponent was assuredly not
wanting in the qualifications which are most
apt to recommend a candidate to the choice
of the groat body of electors, especially the
outlying electors, of either University. Ho
is a safe, moderate, sure-footed, steady-going,
churchman and lawyer ; a third Wrangler, and First
Class in the Tripos Examination, forty years ago,
an obscurely eminent and laborious counsel
ever since ; a man trained and fos-
tered from his youth up in all the most
conventional respectabilitics and orthodoxies of

,our domestic civiliration ; in all the de-
cencies and proprieties, not to say the pre-
judices, of the Conservative creed, without a
flaw of eccentricity or originality in doctrine,
opinion, thought., or principle ; sound as the
soundest of all our great British institutions;
esteemed by a host of friends and acquaintances ;
worthy of the esteem of any number of
. .

strangers. It was not for any deficiency in the
gifts and graces which are cultivated at the Univer-
sities, and which, united with good character and
hard work, lead to fortune in the steeper paths of
maturer age that this excellent gentleman was re-

jected.
Mr. CLEAMBY camo to the poll with by no means
s weak committee at his back. What then was
.the secret of Mr. BERM/Pt/RD HOPE'S success

To say that Mr. Braasrosn HOPE was the richer
candidate would be to say nothing in Ruch a case as
this, or mther, to saysomethingridiculous or insult-
ing to such a constituency. Ye must look to other
testa of eligibility and preference than those which
may be applied without excessive indiscretion to
certain boroughs and even to certain counties.
Perhaps a simple explanation of Mr. Hors's
achievement will be found in the fact that he is ins
„peculiar sense a decidedly representative man. He
is representative of we know not what political,
economical, or religious school ; of wo know not
what opinions, principles, or convictions. And it
is precisely because in common, we dsreaay, with
the great majority of his fellow-country-
men, his creed and doctrine on all the
subjects which perplex men's minds, are "we
" know not what," that he is, we take the
'liberty to assume, eminently a representative man
in the country and the times in which we live. Is I
not this an ago of uncertainty And caprice, of
mobility and transition in all things spiritual and
intellectual ? is it not an age of lights and
ahadowa, of fine gradation' and delicate niceties of
taste and feeling, and comprehensive sympathies ?
Is it not the age of criticism rather than of creation,
sof pietistic fancy rather than of faith, of !esthetic
vulture rather than of productive art? It is only

in Science that we touch the Positive in these days;
in Science, which by the law of its being is

but a succession of conjectures and discoveries.
In all things else, in religion, art, philosophy—
nay, even in social manners and tastes
and fashions, we find much culture and criticism,
much self-conscious, self-doubting affectation of
earnestness and sincerity, a considerable in-
dependence of mind, or a playful revival
of some ancient bigotries. Our prevailing eclec-
tism is but a thin disguise of an exhausted capacity
for production. Our art is a curious confes-
sion in all its manifestations of this somewhat
sinuous dilettantism, which rejoices in private
theatricals at stone altars, and for want of genius
in the artist, takes his portrait in the costume
of an old master. Of such an age as this, critical,
/esthetic, dilettante, curious, tolerant, and sym-
pathetic, but, above all, desperately anxious
to appear in earnest, MT. BEILT.STORD
Hera, we take it, is an admirable and almost
unique representative. He is a scholar, perhaps,
but certainly a patron of scholars ; a man of letters,
'ft may be, but certainly an employer of men of
letters ; an architect, perhaps, but certainly a
sometime President of the Institute of Archi-
tects ; a High Churchman and almost a Ritualist,
. perhaps, but certainly a patron of high churchmen
and ritualists ; but on the other hand a patron
also of the young school of religious indifference,
not to say of heterodoxy and free thinking. It is
said that he has been returned for Cambridge
University by the enthusiastic support of
'the High Church and ritualist clergy. No
doubt ho has received, and well deserved to receive,
the votes of the most highly cultivated and refined
section of the Anglican clergy. But we fancy there
might be discovered by a discerning eye on the list
of his committee some laymen, and even some
. clergymen, whose sympathy with Ritualism is,
.to say the least, imperfect, and whose respect
for the " Pager-book " is limited to something lees
than a bowing acquaintance. Nor can the votes
of either of these classes of his supporters be
fairly fermigmfrto a gentleman of liberal tastes and
(fancies, of senidevind varied circle of acquaintance,
eamqeirsiivellsympathiem, whp!se means