1 Mr. Newdegate is delightful. He is perfectly manly as
a poli- tician,—which can hardly be said of Mr. Whalley, who is apt to whine about his grievances,—and yet ho is as fresh and credulous as a child. At Rugby last week, Mr. Newdegate announced that he had discovered the secret of Mr. Arch. Mr. Arch is too well educated, he said, for his position. That was inexplicable with- out secret agency. Archbishop Manning spoke directly after him at the Exeter Hall meeting last week. Therefore, Archbishop Manning and the Jesuits were probably at the bottom
of the business. Germany had expelled the Jesuits for tampering with agricultural labourers,—should not we begin to think of doing the same ? Mr. Newdegate sees Jesuits in the air and monks upon the evening breeze. He should take care lest, having all his life treated Rome as that which Mr. Herbert Spencer calls the " universal postulate" of political life, he should end by surrendering his own soul to a mystic power of which he so magnificently exaggerates the proportions.
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