17 JULY 1886, Page 2

The poll for the University of London was declared this

day week as follows :—For Sir John Lubbock, 1,314; for Mr. Frederic Harrison, 516; majority for Sir John Lubbock, 798. Both candidates delivered a short address,— Sir John Lubbock in thanking the electors for returning him again to Parliament by a majority which proved that even from the Liberals of the University he had commanded a majority of votes,—he can hardly have received above 6C0 Conservative votes,—and Mr. Harrison in moving a vote of thanks to the returning officer. Both speeches were dignified, and in excellent taste,—though Mr. Harrison did compare the political battle that had been fought in England to that last great battle in the West in which Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table contended with "the heathen," and lost,—we always understood, by the way, that he had won,— and he concluded with the prayer, Exoriare aliquie, uostris ossibus ultor. It was not a very happy phrase. The cause of heathendom, if it is to be discerned at all on our present battle- field, can hardly be identified with the cause of those who fight for the realm of order and union against strange allies, some of whom use weapons of deadly and malignant force, while many of them wield secret terrors and threaten the liberties of their fellow-men. It is Sir John Lubbock, not Mr. Frederic Harrison, who can claim to have been fighting with heathendom in this battle of the West.