The contest at the University of Oxford will be exceedingly
close and severe, and any Liberal whe wishes to save the University from the disgrace of rejecting &great man and return- ing a small one in his place, must postpone, if necessary, his Continental tour till after the Vice-Chancellor has issued his notice of the polling, which will now be almost immediately. No voting-paper signed before the specified time will be legal, and though we trust Mr. Gladstone will be returned, there will scarcely be a vote to spare. We may be sure that Mr. Grathorne Hardy's friends will be either kept in this country or brought triumphantly back to the poll, which will last, as usual, five days. But the Conservatives keep better discipline than the Liberals, to which they are probably driven by their smaller numbers and worse cause.
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