The Liberal candidates now in the field for Westminster—Sir A.
Hobhouse and Mr. John Morley—are both able men, the former a moderate Liberal, who is opposed to Disestablish- ment, and who is really a great authority on Indian policy ; the latter a thoroughgoing Radical (except, indeed, in the favour he shows to women's suffi-age), who would support the Dis- ,establishment of the Church, in which, however, we trust he is not likely to succeed. Mr. John Morley, if he is elected to the House of Commons, may prove, perhaps, no inconsiderable orator. At the Westminster meeting on Tuesday night he said various things showing considerable genius in this direction, as when he remarked—in relation, we suppose, to Mr. Gladstone's .wonderful success in Scotland—that "the human voice would -often bring down an avalanche, and that there was considerable danger of this, when the angel of peace went about accompanied by the raillery of Lord Salisbury." Though a staunch Radical, which Mr. John Morley is, we have hopes, from his deep and grow- ing admiration of Burke, that he will soften into a constitutional Liberal of Radical leanings, before long.
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