The Army and Navy Gazette points to Sir Henry Havelock-
Allan as the fittest soldier in the House to succeed Lord Enstace Cecil as Surveyor-General of Ordnance. Sir Henry had a decided reputation in India as a leader as well as soldier, and has since had great experience on the Staff, while his appointment would deeply gratify the Dissenters. Their views are fully represented in this Administration, but they them- selves are not. The enormous majority of Nonconformists in England and Wales are orthodox, but the last man to rise to office seems to be an orthodox Nonconformist. Their political representatives have almost always been Unitarians or Quakers, or men whose sympathy for religious freedom was based upon a strong distaste for dogmatic theology. Sir H. Havelock-Allan is, we believe, like his father, a Baptist of the old convinced type.
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