Lord Cranborne is labouring hard to win the suffrages of
the electors of the Damen division of Lancashire. He not only stamps the towns, but makes speeches to rough audiences in remote places, and some of his hearers occasionally give him "a piece of their minds" in a fashion which must rather surprise the hope of the House of Cecil. Like many other Conservative orators, his lordship makes Mr. Chamberlain and his heresies
the constant theme of his disconrses,—a habit which must be rather trying for those who have to listen to them. This feeling found expression the other day in a meeting at Bamber Bridge (reported in the Preston Guardian of September 26th), when one of his hearers interrupted him with the exclama- tion: "Talk about thysel', never mind Chamberlain ! " At the same meeting, Lord Cranborne urged against some of the theories he imputed to Mr. Chamberlain, the extra- ordinary plea that "they could not destroy the inequality of the world, otherwise they would be in heaven at once." Are we to infer from this profound observation that his lordship regards the House of Lords, and the Peerage generally, as institutions the reverse of heavenly (for they are evidently incompatible with that equality which Tories and Lord. Cranborne think reigns above), and that, in his opinion, it is the duty of all good Conservatives to strive against making earth like heaven. The Church will hardly be of his opinion.
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