296 Life and Times of " The Druid." 



note paper a codicil to his will, leaving to me 

 his share in a freehold house in Carlisle which 

 gives a vote for North Cumberland. As he 

 signed this codicil, he remarked to those 

 standing round his bed, that he left this little 

 property to me because he was not sure that 

 any of his own sons would vote Liberal when 

 he was gone, and that he had confidence in my 

 always doing so. In this way I have pos- 

 sessed a vote for North Cumberland for many 

 years, and have invariably exercised my 

 privilege by voting as I feel sure he would 

 have done had his life been spared." 



Another point of resemblance between Dr. 

 Arnold and Henry Dixon as politicians was 

 that both were always eager to give expres- 

 sion to their opinions and convictions in 

 print. In 1831 and 1832 Dr. Arnold, for 

 instance, was so much alarmed by the aspect 

 of English society and by the political agita- 

 tions caused by the Reform Bill that he set 

 himself to work to impart to the publications 

 of the " Society for the Diffusion of Useful 

 Knowledge " something of a religious spirit 

 bearing upon politics, in which they seemed 

 to him to be deficient. Thus he writes as 



