The House of Commons has got out of the rather
silly position in which Mr. Disraeli had placed it in regard to the publication of M. Herran's letter. The Foreign Loans Committee on Monday sent in a special report, statingthat after the letter had been read the reporters of the Times and Daily News asked leave to see it, and as it was desirable that the letter should be accurately printed, leave was given by the Chairman. -50n Tuesday, therefore, when the printers, Mr. Goodlake and Mr. Hales, surrendered to the custody of the Serjeant-at-sAs, Mr. Disraeli said that be did not intend to proceed any farther in the matter, as the Committee had stated all the House wanted to know, and they were dis- charged without appearing at the Bar of the House, where, of course, they could only have said that they received copy of the letter with the remainder of the proceedings in the Committee- room. The whole proceeding was an absurdity, made important only by the Premier's failure to perceive that it was absurd. If anybody was in fault in publishing the letter it was the Committee, which, in common justice to M. Herren, could not help itself.
