Mr. Lowe has at length put forward his address, in
the shape of a letter to Mr. Julian Goldsmid, M.P., and 250 graduates of the University of London. It is written with a certain dignity, and pride in the writer's personal achievements as a politician, but is not otherwise remarkable. Mr. Lowe admits that he dissented from the policy of the Liberal party on Reform. He did so because he thought, and still thinks, "that really liberal and enlightened measures and administration were more likely to be attained under the old than under the new constituencies." Now that the question is at an end, "we must expect a much greater demand for equality than heretofore, and ought to pass our institutions in review, modifying such things as seem likely to wound this feeling, and founding ourselves upon principles which will bear the test of discussion in a democratic assembly." Mr. Lowe advocates the infusion of "distinguished merit" into the House of Lords, on an equal footing with "rank and wealth."
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