We trust the University of Cambridge will make an effort
to supply Mr. Raikes's place by a, Conservative of rather more specially academical reputation than the eminent man who is just dead. If the Universities are to justify their existence as political constituencies against Sir G. Trevelyan and his allies, they ought to send Members to the House of Commons of a rather more unique and separate class than most of them actually do send. Perhaps Sir John Lubbock, the Member for the University of London, is nearly the only University Member who combines with a very clear and lucid political intellect, a. special command of unusual and well-defined fields of know- ledge, which mark him as singularly well suited to represent a, University,—and especially the University which lays a great stress on the newer and more modern departments of human knowledge. Hitherto Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, and the Scotch Universities have rather distinguished themselves by preferring sturdy politicians who contribute no distinctly academical element to political discussion, though they have often been very able and thoughtful men.
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