Captain Vivian, M.1'. for Truro, has accepted the permanent Under-Secretaryship
of the War Office, succeeding Sir E. Lugard, who has been appointed one of the Purchase Commissioners. The change will be a great assistance to the department, which is now loaded down with the labour entailed by the resolve to re- organize the Army. The Army will trust its pecuniary interests to Sir E. Lugard with confidence, while Captain Vivian has shown throughout the debates on the Army that he has com- pletely mastered the subject, and is thoroughly in harmony with his chief, whose plans he explained and defended much more lucidly than the Secretary himself did. Sir E. Lugard, though an officer of unusual experience both in the field and the bureau, was bred up too completely under the old system to buckle kindly to the terrible work of constructing a new one.
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