18 JULY 1868, Page 3

We have noticed elsewhere the conflict now going on between

the War Office and the Treasury, or rather Sir H. Storks and the 'Treasury, in which the interests of the country seem to us to be postponed somewhat too much to civilian jealousy of soldiers. 1Ve assay add here, however, that in a debate in the House of Lords on Thursday both the Duke of Cambridge and Lord de Grey took the same view, and deprecated the setting-up of a little Treasury inside the War Office. Both laid down the sound principle that the Minister for War is responsible for everything in the War Office, finance included, though neither drew the necessary deduction that the Commander-in-Chief also ought to be his subordinate.