17 AUGUST 1895, Page 2

We are glad to see that it is the intention

of the Govern- ment to appoint Mr. J. W. Lowther to the Chairmanship of Committees. That is an excellent choice, for Mr. Lowther is greatly liked and respected in the House and enjoys its confi- dente. Though a young man, as politicians go, he was, we believe, placed on the panel of Deputy-Speakers in the last Parliament. The only pity is that Mr. Lowther's sound sense and clearness of vision should not be utilised in the work of administration. He made an excellent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and his speeches were models of firmness and moderation. The principle of inverted nepotism was, however, held to exclude him from the Ministry. His wife is a niece of Lord Salisbury.