The Oxfordshire Members are amongst the few who have addressed
their constituents this week, and even they had very little to say, except that Parliament had attempted too much, and consequently done it badly. Mr. Henley thought that while everybody was talking of the prosperous state of the nation, every- body was fearing a catastrophe ; and in relation to the strikes, he strongly advised public opinion to leave masters and men alone, and not meddle between them. But he broke his own rule by strongly recommending both parties to do to others as they would be done by. Colonel North defended Mr. Cardwell for allowing the soldiers to get in the crops when the labourers struck,—an assumed fact of which it is said that Mr. Gladstone has expressed his doubts. Mr. Cartwright also spoke on the strikes,—indeed, this seems the only subject on which it is possible to say a word this autumn. Politics are nowhere since Mr. Disraeli has shown his fixed reluctance to attack.
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