The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-26 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET RACES —SATURDNY.
One Iluudred Pounds; two year olds bst 101 b, three Bst
41b, four 9st 51b, five, six and aged 9st 81b; the winner
(with his engagements) to be sold for 300 gs, if de-
manded, lc:. Last three miles of 8.0.
Pomfret
Waftl is
Skirmisher Lilly 23
Sixteen ran.

A Pinto of 50 sous (Handicap), for throo year olds awl up-
ward. Cambridgeshire Coursr3.

Silenus _
1
Sycee
„. .. 2

Nino ran.

A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each; two year olds Gst 101 b,
three Bat 101 b, four 9st three, five and upwards 9st 71b;
the winner to be sold for 200 sovs if demanded, &e ; if
for 100 sovs allowed 71b. T.Y.C.

.
Vulcan 1
Lady Alice colt 2

Fivo ran.
MUG' if.
Michael de Basco beat Prince Imperial.
The Houghton Handicap of 15 sovs each, and only 5 ft
if declared by ten o'clock on Friday evening (to the
second), for three year olds and upwards. T.Y.C.
Head Centre
Miss Sarah colt
.. 2
Seringapatain
•• 3

1111SCELLANEO US NE WS.

tilE OXFORD UNIVERSITY ELECTION.

The John Bull is the first to publish the list of Mr
llowbray's London election committee. It consists
of 170 names, and is strong as regards social position;
hut very deficient in the intellectual leaders as com-
pared with Sir Rounclell Palmer's committee. The
chairman is the Marquis of Hamilton, eldest son of the
Duke of Abercorn. . The vice-chairmen are
Sir M. Hicks Beach, the Hon. W. 13rodriel
(whose brother is on Sir Roundell Palmer',
tommittee), and the Rev. R. Gregory, who, to use
a university phrase, has been rrostine aecesstt tc
a bishopric more than once. The committee con-
tains the following names of note :—Bishop Ander-
son, 11. Barnett, M.P., Right Hon. S. Cave, M.P.,
krchcleacon Churton, Rev. W. R. Cosens, Canon
Courtenay, Sir 11. Croft, Archdeacon Denison Mr
Dims(lale, M.P., the Dean of York, Mr. Dyke, LP.
Hon. A. Egerton, M.P., Hon. W. Egerton, E
C. Egerton, M.P., Sir W. FrJser, Archdeacon Gar.
bett, Mr. 11. Gifford, Q.C., Sir T. Gladstone, Mr
G. Langton, M.P., Dean Gott'burn, Mr. J. I tardy, M.P.
Right Hon. J. W. Henley, M.P., Mr. Heygate, M.P.
Lord Hill Trevor, M.P., Mr. Stavely Hill, Q.C., Dr
Holden, head master of Durham Grammar School
Right Hon. G. W. Hunt, M.P., Sir Paul Hunter,
Rev. J. W. Joyce, Mr. King-King, M.P., Sir E.
Lechmere, M.P., Rev. R. P. Lightfoot, Rev. S. C.
Malan, Sir J. Marjoribanks, Dr. Mitchinson, head
master of King's School, Canterbury, Sir G. Mont-
gomery, M.P., the Bishop of Moray and Ross, M.
Morgan, M.P., Right Hon. Sir S. Northcote, M.P.,
Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P., Mr. Sclater-Booth,
Mr. Severne, M.P., Mr. Shaw Stewart, Right
Hon. T. S. Estcourt, Rev. Dr. Thornton,
head master of Epsom College, Canon Thurlow,
Canon Trevor, Bishop Trowel., and Mr. Williams
Wynn, M.P. The joint Oxford committee of Mr.
Hardy and Mr. Mowbray has Dr. Clerke for its chair-
man ; Dean Man3el, Dr. Michell, the Public Orator,
and Professor Wall, for vice-chairmen. The com-
mittee includes the following Heads of Houses :—The
Warden of Wadham, the President of St. John's,
the Provost of Queen's, the Warden of Merton,
the Provost of Worcester, the President of
Corpus, the Master of Pembroke, the Prin-
cipal of Magdalen Hall, and the Principal
of New Inn Hall. There are also the following pro-
fessors :—Ogilvie, Wall, Ouseley, and Burrows. The
most remarkable feature of this committee is the
almost entire absence of the teaching element.
While Sir Roundell Palmer's committee abounds
with tutors of colleges, i.e., the men who have the
training of the present generation of Oxford under-
graduates, there are but about half a dozen actual
tutors and lecturers on the Conservative committee,
though plenty of ex-tutors, who no longer influence
the thought of the university. It is therefore
clear that but for the Act which virtually enfranchised
the rural graduates of Oxford, living teaching
Oxford, the Oxford which guides the thought of the
day, would return not only qir R. Palmer, but
mother Liberal with him.

The John Bull gives a list of members of Sir. R.
Palmer's committee who in 1805 supported Mr. Hardy.
These are ten in number, and besides these there are
on the same committee eighteen who were neutral
on that occasion.

Canon Trevor's opinion of Sir Roundell Palmer,
471 re the Oxford University election, is published by
the Ministerial papers. The rev. canon gives Sir
Roundell every credit for honour, intellect, and con-
science, but thinks he is not the man for the
university. He censures him for holding his
tongue and withholding his vote in the last Par-
liament, and thinks him guilty of casuistry
in his explanation of the Coronation Oath. "Sir
Roundell Palmer has intimated his willingness to
consent to 4 disestablishrnent ' if not to disendowment;
this is a weak and delusive compromise. There are
some clergymen in England (not I think in Ireland)
who look to it as an escape from State control. But
a free Church has no claim on the endowments of a
National Establishment. Whatever might be left
would be left as a purely State gift, and Parliament
would take care (as Mr. Coleridge has already inti-
mated) to fetter it with conditions quite as strin-
gent and more offensive to religion than
anything in the present union of Church
and State." Further the Canon states his belief
that Sir Roundell yields to Mr. Gladstone's policy
in the matter of disestablishment unconvinced, rather
than oppose altogether the political hopes of his
party and the ambition of its leader. " For my part,
though not insensible to the necessities of party I
hold that the member for the University owes his
first duty to the Constitution and the Church."
How Canon Trevor can reconcile this statement
with the former one, that he believes in the honest
conscientiousness of the candidate, we do not under-
stand.

AN ACCOMMODATING CANDIDATE.

Wanted—a constituency which is not pleased with
its candidate. Provided—a candidate ready made to
hand, warranted to please everybody or nobody.
Said candidate would give his services willingly to
said constituency. As to politics, like many another
candidate, he would " prefer not to be fettered by
party ties." In fact, he would " give a general sup-
port to the Government of the day." Sanguine
Conservatives may help to return him, for is n it Mr.
Disraeli certain of retaining office ? All true Liberals
may vote for him, in view of the speedy return of
their party to the right hand of the Speaker. Even
on the Irish Church, this wonderful candidate will
please both sides. He would cordially support Mr.
Gladstone's Irish Church scheme if it should turn out
to be one likely " to calm and not to excite religious
passions, and to cause persons of all creeds to live
together in contentment and mutual respect." This
is just the question at issue, and Mr. William Lay
Smee, without proposing an answer to it, advertises
that he would be very glad to get into Parliament.
Either Mr. Smee must have very little intelligewe
himself, or he must think the world " a world of
fools."