The Cavendishes are very lucky this year. They have seated
the old member for Derbyshire, Lord G. Cavendish, the Marquis of Hartington has been returned for North Lancashire, Lord Edward fought for and won East Sussex, and Lord Frederick was unopposed in the West Riding. They are all good men and Liberals, and one of them, Lord Frederick, has very distinct ideas. He had the pluck a few months ago, when speaking at Leeds, to fight his whole class on the question of the American civil war, and after his election he gave his constituents a reason for want- ing a Reform Bill. A reformed Parliament, he said, would give them a universal system of State education, and pat down the " miserable little sectarian objections" which now impede that improvement. If that kind of thing is said often we shall one day see the constituency, who at present obtain nothing whatever from the educational grant, take heart of grace, demand their share in the chances of improvement going, and read " miserable little sectarians" a lesson that would teach them for once their own powerlessness.
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