Lord Russell has indited another letter from San Remo to
" My dear Mr. Forster," (or was it to the Times, Mr. Forster being only a figure-head correspondent ?) in which he follows up his sugges- tion of a statutory hymn and Bible-reading, and a conscience-clause for Catholics and Jews,—who are, it appears, intrinsically more protectable by a conscience-clause than ordinary Dissenters,—with a declaration similar to Mr. Fawcett's, that the matter will wait a year, and it will be better to wait than to pass what is proposed. San Remo evidently exercises a tonic influence over Lord Russell, and is nerving him to something like the epistolary mischievous- ness of younger days. History will paint him on the heights of the Corniche gazing absently on the blue Mediterranean, and jotting down unpleasant suggestions for " My dear Mr. Forster," or perhaps singing with evangelic fervour one of his own little statutory hymns of praise, if his suggestions should prove fatal for this year to the great Government measure.
