Some activity has been shown in other home matters.
Convocation is sitting, and fruitlessly tilting at the Divorce Acts.
Banbury has refused to elect Mr. Miall, who went to the poll in the Bright interest, and who, by persisting against the wish of a Liberal majority, so far divided the Liberal party, that Mr. Samuelson, the choice of the Liberals, only defeated the Conser- vative, Mr. Hardy, by one vote. Sir John Ramsden, giving up his seat for H3rthe in exchange for the West Riding, has left a vacancy, which Baron Meyer de Rothschild, and Mr. Wilde Q.C. both Liberals, seek to ftll. General Codrington, withdrawing from Greenwich to take a command abroad, leaves that borough the legacy of a contest ; and as Mr. Townsend no longer repre- sents Greenwich, there will be two elections there in three months. Alderman Salomons, Mr. Angerstein, and Mr. Monta- gne Chambers, all Liberals, are the candidates.
Two Reform meetings have been held : a very singular one in the Guildhall, giving Mr. Ernest Jones an opportunity of deliver- ing a philippic against Mr. Bright ; and one at Newcastle, large, imposing, and spirited, where manhood suffrage was the received doctrine.
In Scotland we note a meeting at Edinburgh to carry on the war against exclusive tests. These engines of intolerance have been removed from the Universities ; Mr. Moncrieff and Mr. Black, in combination with Dr. Candlish, seek to remove them from the parochial schools, their last retreat. The Scotch Re- formers hope to obtain a Commission of Inquiry as a preliminary to a much-wanted educational renovation of their country.
The movement in favour of unsectarian intermediate schools in Ireland has received a check at Cork. There a meeting vocifer- ously demands sectarian education ; each sect to have the sole handling of its share of public money granted for education.
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