Saturday's polling at the University of Cambridge showed Mr. Beresford
Hope's majority to be so steadily increasing that Mr. Cleasby's friends gave up the contest, and on Monday no votes were tendered, the polling-room being open only pro forma. The final return was—Mr. Beresford Hope, 1,931; Mr. Cleasby, Q.C., 1,400 ; majority, 531. Mr. Hope took the oaths and his seat for the University on Tuesday night, just before Lord Stanley announced his father's resignation, and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was engaged in forming a Ministry Mr. Hope was received with loud cheers, which were partly interpreted as Conservative cheers for the man who had opposed the Government so strenuously last Session. Consider it as you will, the election was scarcely a good omen for the Disraeli Ministry, though Lord John Manners' name was on the list of Mr. Hope's supporters.
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