In answer to an anonymous attack on him in the
Times, by a correspondent signing himself " X.," Mr. Henry Howorth returned last Monday to his indictment against the personnel of the Conservative Government. He objects to Lord Iddesleigh as Foreign Secretary because, the Tory Party having always been "famous for its foreign policy,—a foreign policy which has been understood in every Continental Chancellory as firm and consistent, and, above all, as undictated by cosmopolitan senti- ment, and having the interests of this Empire only for its object," Lord Iddesleigh is not likely to sustain the credit of such a foreign policy, and is likely to follow in the footsteps of Lord Granville. Farther, he objects to placing Sir Richard Cross, who, though he made a good Home Secretary, knows nothing about India, at the India Office, though we should have thought that very probably this is as good a way as any of leaving the concerns of India in the main to the guidance of Lord Dafferin. Then Mr. Howorth objects to trusting trade and com- merce to one who knows a great deal more about land than trade, Colonel Stanley. We note that he does not repeat his objec- tion to Mr. Henry Matthews. Perhaps he, too, cherishes faint hopes that this unknown quantity may turn out a con- siderable one on the right side of the account.
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