The secret about which such an extraordinary number of false-
hoods have been told appears to have been revealed at last. The extreme Tories have never been tired of abusing the Russian Embassy for its baseness in betraying the Anglo-Russian Agree- ment to the Globe, while at the same time they denied that the document was of any importance. On Thursday, however, the Counsel for the Treasury appeared at Bow Street to prosecute Mr. C. Marvin, copying clerk in the Foreign Office, for steal- ing the Memorandum from the Treasury and sending it to the Globe. Suspicion was directed towards Mr. Marvin because in a press of work he had been employed to copy the Agreement, because he had written certain letters found in his copying-book —letters supposed to be written to defend himself in advance— and because he had paid a sum of /42 into his -bank. The evidence was far from conclusive, but the prisoner's counsel (Mr. Lewis) did not so much deny the betrayal of the Memorandum, as endeavour to prove that it was an indiscretion, and not a crime. The prisoner was remanded, on bail of £200, one surety being the publisher of the Globe.
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