Lord St..Aldwyn, writing in Wednesday's Times as to the representation
of Oxford University, mentions a fact which we record with no small satisfaction,—namely, that Lord Hugh Cecil's Committee have already received nearly two thousand six hundred promises of support. Speaking of Dr. Evans, Lord St. Aldwyn remarks : "The unformed or unstable political principles of that eminent archaeologist are con- clusively shown by his own account of his recent and rel. id conversion from a Radical Free-trader into a Unionist Tariff Reformer." There is no danger, he declares, of Sir William Anson's seat being lost, for the University has always adhered steadily to an old member. Lord Hugh's Unionist supporters will at any rate vote for Sir William Anson as well :— "But," he concludes, "if Dr. Evan.s's supporters feel any anxiety about Sir William Anson, would they be willing to join in an appeal to Mr. Talbot to fix the date of his retirement at some time previous to the General Election ? The present con- troversy could then be settled without any possible inconvenience to Sir William Anson ; and in my belief the result would be the return to the House of Commons of the one man in the country who is best qualified to champion the Church in the struggle which is promised in the Session of 1910 over her disestablislunent and disendovrment in Wales."
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