Mr. Clifford Lloyd has been sharply censured by Lord Carnarvon
for the paper published in the Times of yesterday week. " His Excellency," says Sir R. G. Hamilton in the letter which he has been instructed to address to the Melt Press on the subject, " while always ready to receive from any officer of administrative experience any suggestions that he may deem it desirable to offer, considers it as inconvenient to the public service as it is unusual, that a communication raising.questions of fundamental and constitutional importance should, without his sanction or concurrence, be mooted by one who takes a permanent office under the Government. If such a course were allowed to pass unnoticed, other officers in the public service might claim to express other and extreme views involving the most delicate questions of policy and administration, while the head of the Government would be obviously precluded from taking part in the unseemly controversy." That is a severe snub for Mr. Clifford Lloyd, and one which will gratify the Parnellites even more than it will disturb the able man whom it condemns.
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