We have go- - 7 fully elsewhere into these disputes,
but
must add ' . 4 on Thursday Mr. Sclater-Booth gave Mr. Lowear usei ,essn ity of making a general statement. He would lit has l not tie had been wrong on any point, but he pro- '. r);;eather Igneasiness at the Treasury should be more regularly Todd, aroing through all the sub-departments until it reached „ ucellor of the Exchequer. "It was far from his inten- , rilto interfere beyond the strict letter of duty with any other department, or to alter or diminish the position of Any person within his own department," the latter being an allusion to Mr. Baxter, from whom Mr. Lowe admits that he kept back the Zanzibar papers because he had already ex- pressed so very decided an opinion against them. Mr. Ward Hunt retorted that Mr. Lowe seemed to be the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of the Treasury rolled into one, and
took a great deal too much upon himself ; but the House was friendly, being conciliated by a capital speech from Mr. Glad- stone, who laid down the doctrine that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should place his differences with any departments before his colleagues, like anybody else. He had often done it himself, and often been defeated.
