The Venerable Archdeacon Denison is canvassing East Somerset for the
Conservative candidates, Major Allen and Mr. R. Bright, and in speaking on their behalf and that of the Irish Church, at Chew Magna, he said it was much more honourable for the Con- servative party to be educated by its head than for the head of the Liberal party to be educated by his tail, and the very last joint of his tail, as Mr. Gladstone had been. " lie " (Mr. Glad- stone), said the jocose and venerable gentleman, "is every day becoming more and more the counterpart of his tail," which would be an excellent joke, if it did not happen that though the Conservative party has been educated by its own head, Mr. Disraeli, that head, has been educated even more signally than Mr. Gladstone by " the lowest joint of the tail " of the opposite party. Mr. Disraeli's household suffrage was a little too Radical even for Mr. Gladstone. If to be lashed on by his own tail is Mr. Gladstone's fate, to be lashed on by Mr. Gladstone's tail is Mr. Disraeli's. But really these reverend Conservatives, canvass- ing the most serious question of the day in a style a shade lower than that of Fun, can scarcely wish to be thought in earnest. If they did, they would emulate a little more the depth and intensity of the statesman they are reviling, Mr. Gladstone.
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