It is stated that Dr. Miller, the eminent chemical professor,
and proposed as the Conservative candidate for the London University, has joined Sir John Lubbock's committee, as the Conservatives have given up the idea of starting a candidate of their own. Sir John Lubbock seems to us indefinitely superior to Mr. Lowe who is, in fact, an anti-Church antagonist of the people,—vehement Radical where any spiritual, or ecclesiastical, or even moral conservatism is in question, and vehement Conservative on most questions in which the wealthy proprietors are opposed to the interests of the people. But Sir John Lubbock's claims are mostly scientific, while Mr. Bagehot's are mostly political. The former has written ably on Prehistoric Man, the latter ably on the British Constitution. And while the former is not a graduate of the London University, the latter is a distinguished one.
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