The Times of Monday published a letter from Mr. Lloyd
George in which, in answer to a request from Lord Salisbury, he supplied "three cases in which the [Cecil] family trampled upon every principle laid down by Lord Robert Cecil in his 'judicial' report." The first case referred to the late Lord Salisbury, who tried to get higher compensation for his property under a street improvement scheme than was pro- vided for in the Bill drafted by the Metropolitan Board of Works. The Commons refused the amendment put forward in Lord Salisbury's interest, but the Lords accepted it. Strong words were used in the Commons about the action of the Lords, and Lord Salisbury, recognizing that the feeling was against him, gave way and advised the Lords not to press the amendment. The last fact is not mentioned in Mr. Lloyd George's letter, but was pointed out in a letter from Lord Salisbury on Thursday. Mr. Lloyd George's account of the episode takes the form of a denunciation of the late Lord Salisbury in a speech which Mr. Chamberlain delivered in his Radical days.
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