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Lord Lansdovrne's speech was very moderate as well as very

clear, but it was also one of the most damaging exposures of the action of the incsiminated Ministers that have yet been made. Those who know anything of Lord Lansdowne, or who have watched his public career, must realize how deep must have been his sense of disgust at having to expose to the gaze of the world such transactions as those with which be dealt—transactions to which one can no more imagine his being a party than one can imagine his taking a handsome present at Christmas from, let us say, the refreshment con- tractor—if there is one—to the House of Lords.

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