26 OCTOBER 1895, Page 2

Lord Dufferin, we regret to see, has decided to reside

for the future almost exclusively on his Irish estate, and has con- sequently resigned his office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. The office, which ranks high among honours, but involves nowadays considerable expenditure, only compen- sated by a pleasant residence on the coast, has been bestowed by the Queen upon Lord Salisbury, who has sold his château at Dieppe, but retains his much finer place on the Riviera. We are old-fashioned enough to think that the Sovereign and the Premier should never quit the United Kingdom ; but that is not the idea of the modern world, which holds that at home there is no true rest.