Apart from the great Conservative gathering, there have been three
social and one political meeting. Mr. Gladstone has ap- peared in the Cambridge Senate House as the St. Bernard of the Oxford and Cambridge Mission, eloquently exhorting the alumni of both universities to seek a great and useful career in Central Africa. Mr. Disraeli has -*timed at -Manoheatex en the best mode of succeeding in life. Lord Brougham, at Newcastle, speakagfto a similar salience of meinhersuf Mechanics' Insti- tntes,lhas dwelt on the uses and -pleasures of-Andy, and the pro- gress of education in his tutintinie. Air. 'Card, at Dunfermline, talking politics to his constituents, has broached the theory of the new Manchester and Liverpool party in favour of an increase of direct taxation, and has given his support to the mischievous idea that property in England is exempt from its due share of financial burden ; forgetting that England stands almost alone in making property liable for the maintenance of the poor.
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