13 MARCH 1886, Page 3

There was a false rumour on Tuesday that Mr. Drew

(Mr. Gladstone's son-in-law) had been presented by the Lord Chancellor to the rich living of East Farleigh, which is not even vacant. The Pall Mall, however, which was most bitter and sarcastic on the subject of Mr. Gladstone's supposed nepotism, has made no apology for its rancorous attack, now it has found how baseless it was. We suppose it would say that it criticised justly an imaginary appointment, for the first pub- lication of which it was not responsible. No doubt. Bat having done what it could to blacken an imaginary sinner, ought it not to have done all it could to make known to all the world that the imaginary sinner with a real name was perfectly innocent? To this, however, its candour is not equal.