3 AUGUST 1867, Page 3

Lord Cairns succeeded on Monday in giving votes to the

Under- graduates of Oxford and Cambridge for the borough elections. The innovation is considered a Tory triumph, but it will do the party little good. In Oxford it will not enfranchise anybody, as all students of fall age are sent to lodgings in town, and can vote as lodgers ; and in Cambridge very few, as, residence being shorter, the number of men over twenty-one is comparatively small. By the way, a lodger must prove that he has resided a year. Will a year of infancy count ?