. In the House of Commons on Thursday Sir Edward
Grey did Sir Redvers Buller the great disservice of bringing his case forward, on the plea that Sir Redvers Buller had been placed in an unfair position by the partial and unexplained publication of selected telegrams sent by or received by him. Though Sir Edward Grey is a master of persuasive speaking, and though he used his great Parliamentary abilities to the full to put the case for the man he was defending in the best possible light, it will, we think, be found that the verdict of impartial minds is against him on the allegation that the ei-overnment treated General Buller harshly or unjustly. In Our view, they treated him, till he made his notorious " spy " speech, with an indulgence which amounted to weakness and neglect of the public interest. After the speech, and the evidence it afforded of Sir Redvers Buller's judg- ment, discretion, and views of military discipline, they took the only possible course in dismissing him.
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