Mr. Gathorne Hardy proposed Mr. Dyke for West Kent on,
Monday. No doubt he was already assured of his own success at the Oxford University poll, and took great pains to speak in that strictly classical and refined style which Oxford will look for from her member. " How," he asked, " had Lord Russell maintained peace? Lord Russell, like the cur dog at its owner's gate, had barked at every dog that passed, but been afraid to bite at any. When the larger dogs—such as Russia, Austria, and Prussia— turned upon him, he had sneaked into his kennel, and in that way he maintained peace." Then a still more pure and classical allusion rose to his lips. " The Liberals bad used reform very much as the costermonger who had a stupid donkey used a carrot," &c. Such thoughts expressed in such language will indeed make the Oxonians exult in their new member, when they compare this wisdom, and its setting, with that of Mr. Gladstone's recent speeches in Liverpool and Manchester.
