Mr. Ferrand made on Friday a speech characteristically calum- nious
against the Board of Charitable Trusts. He spared the Com- missioners, but thought most of the remaining employes were either snobs, or fraudulent persons, or men appointed in defiance of Parliament, or, what was worse than all, Whigs. He was par-
ticularly severe on Mr. Simon, who, being a coal and potato sales- man in the Hampstead Road, was appointed inspector with a salary of 800/. a year, according to Mr. Ferrand, from corrupt motives. There seems, so far as one can judge from the tone of Her Majesty's Government, to have been something of a job in this nomination, but so completely is Mr. Ferrand distrusted in the House that his application for an inquiry was rejected by 116 to 40, members remembering that twenty years ago the House had formally voted that charges brought by Mr. Ferrand against Sir James Graham and Sir James Weir Hogg were unfounded and calumnious."
