There was a grand fight in the Lords on Tuesday
about the appointment of a Colonel of Militia by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cornwall. Mr. Cardwell had disallowed the appointment, and the question nominally was whether the disallowance was notified within the legal time. The real feeling of the great Peers, how- ever, evidently was that for the War Office to interfere with their nominations was a piece of impudence, the Duke of Buccleugh even saying that in forwarding his nominations he was " formally " making known the selections he intended to act upon. Mr. Cardwell, in fact, is to be responsible for an officer whose appoint- ment he disapproves. The whole debate is one more proof of the necessity of abolishing the anomalous system which enables great landlords to appoint the officers of the Home Army, and an indica- tion that the great landlords mean to fight for their highest prerogative.
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