The polling at Stroud is fixed for Tuesday, and both
parties are very confident, Sir H. Havelock's followers trusting their -candidate, and Mr. Dorington's remembering with delight that Stroud is a collection of villages as well as a town. Sir H. Havelock's views on education are not ours, and he has expressed the dislike of war felt by every really experienced soldier in the -crude form of a preference for arbitration, but the Liberal electors of Stroud will do well to remember these facts :—There is at present scarcely a soldier in the House who is at once a con- vinced Liberal and an old campaigner, and but one who can aid Mr. Cardwell in one of his most serious duties,—the redistribution of the Indian Army, which is choked with unnecessary staffs. It would be worth the while even of Tories to send up some one -who adds to the strength of the House, instead of a mere local magnate.
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