Lord Rosebery has resigned the Under-Secretaryship of the Home Department.
It is announced that he has no difference -with the Government, and only desires to facilitate the appointment of a Commoner; as the Liberals in the debate of Thursday week appeared to wish. This was confirmed by Sir W. Harcourt on Thursday, in language of unusual strength, the Home Secretary even talking of his " affection " for Lord Rosebery, and is of course true, even though Lord Rosebery may also have felt hurt at Sir W. Harcourt's rough assertion in the debate of Thursday week that he had only been appointed for a moment as a sop to the Scotch Members. Mr. Hibbert has been selected for the vacant office, and Mr. G-. Russell, Member for Aylesbury, has been appointed Under-Secretary to the Board of Trade. Mr. Russell is quite young (only thirty), is a Member of the Woburn family, and is a Radical of promise. He speaks well, thinks clearly, and has an individuality about him apt to be wanting in men of aristocratic birth and strongly popular opinions. He will be a gain to the official world, which wants backbone as much as anything.
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