Lord Dunraven, who pecks at Lord Salisbury's admin . istra- tion
with as much pertinacity as was displayed by Dickens's favourite bird which ate up a whole flight of stairs, attacked Lord Salisbury yesterday week on the subject of the delay in replacing Lord Sackville by a new Minister at Washington, asking at the same time for the correspondence. Lord Salis- bury replied that the correspondence, not being yet complete, could not be presented to Parliament; and that though it was quite constitutional to criticise diplomatic appointments when made, it was not constitutional "to require information before- hand as to the intentions of the Government." In fact, Lord Dunraven took nothing by his curiosity and excessive anxiety to please the United States. There is no notion of quarrelling with the United States, but there is certainly no urgency in the matter. Mr. Cleveland has had the pleasure of snubbing us in a fashion not altogether worthy of him. The "comity of nations" cannot require that we should be absolutely in haste to show that we rather liked than disliked the experience.
