Sir John Coleridge writes a good letter (though rather unctuous)
to The Guardian in favour of Mr. Gladstone's return for the University of Oxford at the next election. "The clergy," he says, "will, I am sure, commit a vital mistake if they band themselves together to oppose all progress, all change, if they 'confuse the importance of externals and internals, of that which is accessory, and may be temporary, and that which is vital." Mr. Gladstone himself was asked on Thursday night if in the notice given in relation to the re-election of a "prominent mem- ber of the Government" for the University of Oxford, the date fixed, the second week in July, had been fixed on the highest authority. Mr. Gladstone thanked his questioner, Sir R. Clifton, for calling him a "prominent member of the Government," and told him the date fixed was purely conjectural, though the conjecture of a "prominent member" of the Government,—amidst loud cheering. His reception by the House of Commons certainly appears to indicate a wish for his continued success.
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