It is clear, of course, that behind this official correspondence which has been published wasanotherand nnofiicial corrospondence going on between the Government and Lord Kitchener. It is clear, for instance, that Mr, Brodrick knew from the first that Lord Kitchener strongly objected to the appointment of General Barrow as Military Supply Member of the Viceroy's Council, although for some reason the Commander-in-chief would seem to have abstained from urging this ction in his communications with the ey. For this reason Lord Curzor resignation cannot be regarded as oth wise than a triumph for Lord Hitch There is some ground for believing that the ubiquitous fiscal question had not a little to do indirectly with the course of events, Had the Government boon in a stronger position they would have probably allowed Lord Curzon to resign when he wanted to last Juno instead of adopting a course which led him to believe that ho bad gained a victory over Lord Kitchener. Lord Curzon is a strong Free Trader. When ho accepted the Governor-Generalship and it became almost n necessity that he should be made a peer, he elected to become a poor of Ireland, in order that he should not be debarred from sitting in the House of Commons; and if his health permits he will, it is expected, take the earliest possible opportunity of returning to the Commons, where he would be a tower of 18 strength to the Free Trade Unionists., The New Viceroy, Lord Minto, the new Viceroy, is a "Tarif Reformer and thus if the Government have by their action strengthened the Free Trade Unionist Purty at home, they have the compensation of getting " Viceroy who will not embarrass Ste. Chamberlain's movement, "as Lord Curzon has done, by pointing out how much India has to lose and how little to gain from the adoption of a system of Colonial preferences and retaliation. The new Viceroy is an amiable man, who will doubtless be personally more popular in india than Lord Curzon has ever been; and the Countess will be an admirable leader of society there. Bub the appointment has created a good deal of surprise in Canada. It is true that Lord Minto was a very good Canadian Governor-General; but the King's representative in Canada, n-nation governing itself, can sot be much more than a figure-head. great deal more than that is required of a Viceroy of India; and Lord Minto doos not seem to have impressed those with whom he came in contact as possessing marked ability. His measure may perhaps be taken from the first speech which he made here after his appointment—a speech in which he claimed that it was fox-hunting which produced the race of men which gave a backbone to the Empire. 1t is true that he was address-1 ing a gathering of fox-hunters; but that is the only excuse he has.
Swimming the Channel, Just now the sport which is attracting most public attention swimming. Yesterday no fewer than four great swimmers—one of them a woman—were engaged in attempting to emulate Captain Webb's great feat of swimming from England to France, and they all failed as they have failed on previous occasions; but it was not remarkable yesterday, as the conditions: wore in some respect unfavourable, and it is only by a combina. tion of all the most favourable conditions that the strongest and ablest swimmer can hope to accomplish the task. The swimmers yesterday wore Miss. Keller-man, Holbein, Burgess, snd Horace Mow. Mow isa Shanklin man, Captain' of the Shanklin local Rowing Club, and the others are all very well-known swimmers, Burgess and Holbein, who'have both come very near to success on previous occasions, are both regarded as likely to succeed one of these days if they try often enough, since what man has done man may do again; and Miss Kellerman is a splendid swimmer for a woman. Several expert swimmers accompanied her yesterday, and although they went into the water fresh when she had been swimming for hours there was only one who could keep up with her. Holbein, it may be remembered, won fame as a long-distance cyclist before he was ever heard of as a swimmer.
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