It is formally announced that the successor to Sir Charles
Warren is to be Mr. Monro, formerly an Indian civilian and head of the police in Bengal, and later, chief in London of the detective police. Mr. Monro is said to have every qualifi- cation for the office except physical strength, he having been lamed by an accident in India. He has, however, Colonel Pearson as his chief of the Staff, and in modern strategy the business of the Commander-in-Chief does not lie in the field. It should be noticed that Mr. Monro is already attacked by some journals, and, indeed, threatened with dismissal if he does not behave himself. He has two disqualifications which secure him injustice from the Press,—he knows everything about Irish secret societies, and he has the confidence of Mr. Matthews, who hanged Lipski, and was once believed by Irishmen to be a Home-ruler. If Mr. Monro will catch the Whitechapel mur- dsgr., Englishmen will forgive him those serious offences, and .-powerless as they are in their own land, their favour may comfort the new Chief Commissioner.
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