1 AUGUST 1874, Page 1

On Thursday, the names of the new Charity Commissioners were

mentioned, when it became obvious that Mr. Disraeli had wisely insisted on having as little change as might be in the

temper of the Commission. The new Charity. Commissioner,

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e., the one who fills up the vacant place in the old Charity Commission (as distinguished from the Endowed Schools Com- mission), is to be Mr. Longley, at present chief inspector of the Local Government Board in the Metropolitan District. The two Endowment Commissioners are to be Canon Robin- son one of the present Endowed Schools Commission — and Lord Clinton, who was for some time in the House of Commons as Mr. Trefusis, where, says " Dod," he was counted "a Liberal-Conservative," and "favourable to progressive improvement." (By the way, what is unprogressive improvement, we wonder ?) Lord Clinton was made Under- Secretary of State for India by Lord Derby's Government in 1867, and seems to be regarded as a sensible and quiet friend of gradual reform. Mr. Disraeli is trying to retrieve as far as he can the gross blunder of Lord Sandon's Bill. He explained, by the way, on the same evening in the House, that the Bill was not drafted by Lord Sandon at all; _but by the Cabinet, and that Lord

Sandon was only asked to move it, "in pursuance of the desire he (Mr. Disraeli) had always felt to give the rising generation of statesmen every opportunity of bringing themselves before the country,"—a desire not in this case so fortunate for Lord Sandon as- it might have been. But sorely there was another reason? Has Mr. Disraeli forgotten that, according to his own statement, after devoting many " anxions and perplexed hours to the attempt to understand parts of this Bill," he failed.? And of course, what he could not understand, he could not explain tothe [rouse of Commons. Lord Sandon understood it, and ex, plained it only too well, thereby enabling the country to under- stand Lord Sandon.