The Home Secretary said, in the conversation on Sarah Chandler
a fortnight since, that he had rebuked Mr. Moore. Mr. Moore, having gathered that he would not be dismissed, said Mr. Cross had not rebuked him, and ought to be interrogated for telling such a story. So on Wednesday Mr. R. Power interrogated him. Mr. Cross replied that, as a magistrate of long stand- ing, if he had sentenced a person to four years' imprisonment, and had received -a letter from the Secretary of State saying he felt bound to reverse the decision, he should have felt it a severe rebuke, and he thought Mr. Moore so felt it when he said that the same thing should not occur again. That- was neat, and the _House liked it ; but Mr. Cross-is-over Mr. Moore's head. The 'Vicar of Spalding 4043 not_ understand hints. He will say that le did not sentence Sarah Chandler to imprisonment, but to resi- dence in a boarding-school ; that the Secretary did not rebuke him, but only his sentence ; and that, being a Canon, a sinecurist, a Tory, and a talker, no one has ventured to meddle with him. And the little girls of Spalding will believe him.
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