Mr. Cardwell and Mr. Neate addressed some of their con-
stituents at Oxford on New Year's Day at a Druids' dinner, but they do not seem to have addressed anything particular to them. Mr. Cardwell commented, of course, on the Tory R.tform Bill. He spoke of the Tories as having undergone what the surgeons. call " a capital operation," but as having undergone it under the influence of chloroform ; " and when it was over, they found that they had lost the limb on which they had been accustomed to rely, and that theyhad not experienced any pain, or even conscious- ness." Mr. Cardwell, however, did say one important thing,—he expressed himself favourable to distributing the Church property in Ireland fairly amongst the Catholics, Protestant Churchmen, and the Presbyterians. That is one more vote,—and not an unimpor- tant vote as an index of moderate Liberalism,—for Lord Russell's scheme. Mr. Cardwell also gave his adhesion to Mr. Austin Bruce's education Bill.
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