Poor Sir John Pakington evidently dreads being turned out of
Droitwich, and is very querulous and uneasy. Well, he is a bit of a goose certainly, and he did once try, and very nearly succeeded, too, in making Droitwich rich beyond the dreams of avarice and ruining the Indian Treasury by proposing to exempt Worcestershire salt from the import duty in Calcutta. Sir George Grey, who was, we believe, accidentally lead- ing the House, stamped with rage and vexation, and it was actually necessary to use the Peers to check the Commons' momentary folly. Still Sir J. Pakington did suffer good work to be done at the Admiralty, and did fight, in season and out of season, long before the question became national, for a system of education, very like that established by Mr. Forster's Bill. Droitwich ought to spare him, if only for the magnificent burglary he once attempted for her sake alone.
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