The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-05 00:00:00

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Compans. Yesterday. this day.
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1 all Australian Freehold. ip p 1$
i 1 all Ave Maria
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35 24:3 Brazilianlmp.(issued
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... ~. 68 70 68 .
5 2 Univeral Emigration
and Colonization..., ... ...
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OXFORD UNIVERS'ITY ELECTION.

(From the Times.)
Sir Robert Inglis once boasted in the House of
Commons that as representative for the University
of Oxford he was probably returned with less
trouble and cost than any other member. The
rule of this model election is,- that the candidate
says nothing, does nothing, paysnothing, and must
not even go near the University. till. after the lapse
of some weeks or months, when, as a great favour,
he is permitted to take a day ticket to Oxford to
lunch with his mover and seconder, to leave a card'
of thanks at a score of common rooms and as man.y-
houses, to finish the day very pleasantly wherever
he likes, and be home again by night. , Including
his railway ticket and his cab, we believe the suc-
cessful candidate need not be 101. out. of pocket,
and for that outlay he enjoys the pleasantest seat
in Parliament. All this is very well for the mem-
ber himself, and makes a very verdant little oasis
in the Serbonian bog of British electioneering ; but
it is not so pleasant for the unfortunate consti-
tuents. Members of Convocation, besides pay-
ing more than two guineas a-year for the plea-
sure of keeping their names on the books, are
liable to be called upon every election by any-
body who chooses to proclaim that he means
to stand, or that somebody else will stand, or
that if that somebody else will not stand another
somebody else, now in nubilms, will be got to stand.
Reversing the ordinary rule, the University candi-
date dances, and the electors pay the piper ; so it
is very hard if somebody can't be got to dance when
his music and entertainment are both gratis. In
other cases a candidate adopts the sumptuary rule
of " counting the cost," anti backing out if he finds
himself likely to be beaten. In Oxford there is no
consideration of prudence to prevent a man's going
to the poll, and keeping it open fourteen days, to
the great amusement of his particular friend's, and
the immense éclat of a very insignificant name.
The only suffering parties are the parsons and law-
yers, who are at the pains to come up from their
parsonages or their chambers at a cost exceeding
their annual payment to the income tax, for the
pleasure of assisting at a contest the result of which
everybody knew from the beginning.
That is precisely the infliction under which the
University of Oxford is suffering at this moment.
Some nameless individuals, said to be the same
that attacked Mr. Gladstone in the Carlton, and
threatened to throw him out of the window, after
sleeping off their debauch have se :; to work to
get up a show of opposition to his return foi' the
University. If that sham opposition were to be
at the cost of the sham opponent and the real
opposed there would not be so much reason to com-
plain, for it is an incident that may happen in any
borough in the country, and a challenger who shakes
the risk with his antagonist cannot be utterly con-
temptible. But it is the peculiarity of this sham
opposition that it is to be done at the cost of the
voters—the voters on both sides, whether for Mr.
Gladstone or for the man of straw set up against
him. The contrivers of the nuisance do not even
risk their names and credit in this instance ; they
are really nameless—as nameless as the noisy fel-
lows who wake you up with a double knock at two
in the morning, or break your windows, or smash
the gas light, or do any any other heavy drollery of
that sort. Nobody knows or cares who is doing this.
As little does it matter whom the Oxford party
have got for their Guy on the occasion. At one time
they proclaimed through a congenial medium that
they had secured the Marquis of Blandford ; then it
was the Marquis of Chandos ' • and when he repu-
diated the honour thrusb upon him, it was Sir John
Dousy Harding," as he was called—anybody, in
fact, or anything, that could be fished up out of the
calendar. A contemporary has been at the pains
to show, and does show most clearly, that there
has been an enormous amount of lying on the part
of the committee for the sham opposition. We
confess we think it rather superfluous to prove that
what is a lie from first to last is composed of lies in
its details. It is so little of a novelty to find per-
sons of the Carlton school practising these little
vagaries, these changes of names, through Frail,
Mason, Johnson, Smith, Thompson, &c., and cor-
responding changes of appearance, that we should
hardly have animadverted on the fact that a man
was declared a consenting candidate who had pub-
lished his determination not to stand. Passing
over the obscurity which envelopes the origin of the
movement, and the oscillations of statement which
have characterised its progress, we will confine our-
selves to its state at this moment. A man has been
actually found ; that is, if there is such a man as
was yesterday proposed in convocation at Oxford.
The person on whom the gentlemen of the Carlton
have fallen back is one Mr. Dudley Percival, said.
to be a son of the minister who was shot in the
lobby of the House of Commons, to be a member of
the National Club, to have got a first class thirty
years ago, to have had the honour of being beaten
by Wakley and Duncombe for the borough of Fins-
bury in 1837, and to be " a sound churchman, a
consistent politician, add a talented man." His
present occupation and residence we are not in-
formed of.
Mr. Dudley Perceval, then, is the Cincinn.atus
of Churchmen who has been dragged from utter
obscurity—granting that there is such a man—to
molest members of Convocation and make them
pay for supporting Mr. Gladstone. The second
visible member of the movement is a Dr. Lem-
priere, who calls himself the honorary secretary of
some committee ; and the third and kit member of
this picturesque group is Archdeacon Denison, who,
mad as he is, has just sense enough to know that
Mr. Gladstone will be re-elected, as he was last
time, and that the sole result of the pretended op-
position will be abstracting the best part of a five-
pound note from the pockets of several hundred.
clergymen and lawyers who can very ill afford it.
Really, it is becoming high time to ask what is
to be done, not for the present election, but
for the future. As matters now stand it will
always be in the power of anybody to annoy
the majority of the Convocation by dragging
them up to a pretended contest. The mem-
bers of Convocation who are on the whole
satisfied to retain Mr. Gladstone, or who at least
prefer him to the nominees of the Carlton, are
probably,two to one compared with the others ;
so a contest is likely to inflict twice as much
loss on Mr. Gladstone's supporters as on his op-
ponents. Such is the speculation on which these
proceedings are founded. But it is clear that if
the game is repeated every election, the University
will be obliged in self-defence to ask Parlia-
ment for some other system, which shall save the
time, strength, and pockets of the ten or twelve
hundred gentlemen victimised in this fashion. In
other elections shabbiness of soon punishes itself,
for even poor Flewker, when he found W. B. and
Co. would not reimburse him for fighting their
battles, turned against them and sold them.. But
there does not seem a chance of any such poetical
justice
in the Universities under the present sys-
tem. Only think of several trains full of valuable,
busy, but not very rich men, going down to Oxford
this morning to vote for or against a person whose
existence they never heard of yesterday, and even
now only hold on faith ! For our part, after all,
we cannot but think that he is a very near relative
of our old friend Mr. Harris. To remove any
doubt on this point, let him be exhibited at Exeter-
Hall, with documentary
evidence of his defeatx-
istence, and history; his first-class, his
Finsbury, his " talents," and hi
s at
principles. If we
must go to Oxford to record our votes, it would at
least be something to know that we were voting
against a real man, and not a mere name.

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