21 MARCH 1868, Page 2

Mr. Disraeli, when dismissing Lord Chelmsford, offered to recommend him

for any favour he might be disposed to request of the Crown. Lord Chelmsford has asked nothing, but Mr. Disraeli, with a fine sense of the expediency of making an enemy ridiculous, has, according to the Time; offered the late Chancellor a G.C.E., which Lord Chelmsford has, with some acerbity, declined. Mr. Disraeli evidently remembers his mutiny in 1858, and think- ing him a fine though inconvenient specimen of the lawyer mili- tant, offers him a decoration usually reserved for warlike services. He should have sent him a Knighthood of the Thistle. That would at least have been significant, for its motto is, " Nemo me uvulae lacessit."