Mr. Goschen made a brilliant speech at Cambridge on Thursday,
a speech positively bristling with bright sentences, like the one in which he summed up the result of triennial Parliaments " In future, Members of Parliament are to sit with their eyes on the door ;" or in which he described the Newcastle programme as " bristling with future dissolutions." That programme introduces five fundamental changes into the Constitution, three of which at least—the equalisation of votes, the abolition of the Lords, and the settlement of Ireland—will demand a dissolution. Mr. Goschen opposed also the payment of Members, which would tend to destroy their independence, and wound up a speech which was received with enthusiasm, by pointing to Mr. Balfour as the man who had driven away the Irish spectre, who had won respect even from Irish Members, and whom many wished should lead in the House of Commons the great Unionist host. That was an unselfish peroration.
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