Mr. Russell Gurney, the Recorder of London, is, as we
hinted last week, going out on the Jamaica Commission, having obtained leave, not quite without difficulty, from the Lord Mayor, who evidently regards him as adstrictus glebx, a Lord Mayor's serf, who should not even have written .a letter to the Government on the subject without communicating first with hint. Mr. Russell Gurney asked leave of the Lord Mayor as soon as the negotiation had got to a point at which it was likely to come to anything, but the Lord Mayor was not satisfied with that, he wished to be Mr. Russell Gurney's conscience, and " make a coward " of a Re- corder. It is a great thing to be Lord Mayor, but Lord Mayors judging the hearts and reins would not be quite in their place, and might even find a difficulty in securing an answering thrill of reverence.
