The appointment of Mr. Arthur Elliot (Membea- for Durham City)
to the office of Secretary to the Treasury, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. Hayes Fisher, is one upon which the Government can be most heartily congratulated,— a sounder and better choice could not possibly have been made. Mr. Arthur Elliot, who is the brother of Lord Mint*, the Governor-General of Canada, is essentially a man of sane and moderate views, and may be trusted to maintain the highest standard in his very important and responsible post. But though Mr. Elliot is so conspicuously moderate in his political views, he has never shown any timidity or want of definiteness, and his Parliamentary career has been marked in a striking degree by independence of mind. Mr. Elliot has for the last few years been editor of the Edinburgh Review. Under him the famous Whig organ has fully maintained its great traditions.
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