Mr. Gladstone, in a short, prefatory note to the new
reprint of his Scotch speeches, states that he has received from the Chancellor of the Exchequer proof that the appointment of Lord Hampton to the Civil Service Commissionership was made for reasons which, though they do not convince him either of its expediency or of its economical justifiability, still prove that "it need not, and therefore should not, be interpreted so- 8.8 to carry the moral taint, implied in the word job.' I therefore at once, and with pleasure, withdraw that word." It is a pity that Mr. Gladstone's enemies cannot eannlate a little of his candour. Mr. Bourke, apparently, in like circumstances,. would have merely published the statement as one which called in question what the writer "considered to be his error," in terming the matter a job.
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