29 APRIL 1882, Page 3

We publish in another column a correspondence between Sir John

Lubbock and one of his constituents, Mr. Henry Cobb, on the subject of Sir John Lubbock's resistance to the Closure, if carried by a bare majority. We have a great respect for Sir John Lubbock, but cannot help regretting that University Members so often take up crotchets which endanger the union of the party to which they belong, and give the impression that they are not practical politicians. University constituencies are unpopular enough in the country, without having to struggle with the imputation of returning " two-thirds Liberals," as Mr. Cobb proposes to denominate the anti-Closure clique.