7 NOVEMBER 1868, Page 2

Mr. Albert Dicey, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, made

a remarkable speech at Clitheroe last week in favour of Mr. Roundell's candidature for that borough,—one a the very ablest we have read throughout these weary elections. He commented on the new alliance which Mr. Disraeli sarcastically pointed out, and we in these columns gravely rejoiced in, between "the philo- sophers and the people." Mr. Roundell bad in his address stated that there, are as many as twelve young University men, warm Liberals, canvassing popular constituencies just as he is canvass- ing Clitheroe, and Mr. Roberts Mid-Surrey, and Mr. George Brodrick Woodstock,—and we only wish he could have added that Mr. Albert Dicey was among them, as he has evidently eloquence and ability of no common order. Mr. Dicey was not only witty and popular, he was thoroughly eloquent and in earnest. There was nothing of the jocular club-wit of Mr. Bernal Osborne about his speech. One of the best points of his address was the immorality, practised too much by both sides of the House, of bestowing appointments with a view to party interests,

and not the highest possible efficiency of the work to be done. Perhaps he might have been a little -fairer- to the Tories in this respect. He had a right to ask whether Lord Mayo is going out to India "to level up or level down ;" and if the latter, whether it is to be the empire he will level down. But he might have admitted that Mr. Disraeli's ecclesiastical appointments have been better than the Liberals'.