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July 13, 1878.]

PUNCH, Oft THE LONDON CHARIVAKI.

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PUNCH'S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

We know now that it was not Count Schotiyaloff who let the

freat Foreign Office cat with nine tales out of the bag [the other day,
ut a writer, at tenpence an hour, who, finding within his reach a
secret paper that was worth money, very naturally sold [it. Now
that the cat has been let out, everybody {Lords, Monday, Jidy 1)
is much amazed that the custody of so valuable an animal should
have been trusted to such temptible and contemptible hands.

Lord Granville has been three times at the Foreign Office in the
last twenty years, and cannot'believe that under his regime such a
laches would have been possible (no harm in making" a little party
capital out of the ease). ;In those halcyon days—*. e. in the F. 0.
of [our time— everybody .trusted everybody, and nobody ever heard
of cats being let out of bags.

Lord Hammond, Nestor of the" Foreign Office, of half a century's
service within those sacred walls, who^owes to the Office his title,
his credit, all he is, and has, and knows, who has been brought up
from the green and salad days of his youth to the evening of his age
on its rules and records, grey traditions, and red-tape, is even more
seriously exercised at the thought of this great and grievous blot on
the F. 0. scutcheon. But Lord H. rises above the mere Whig and

Tory view of the matter. In his mind the dereliction has a deeper
root. It all comes of the detestable habit of „" employing persons of
whose antecedents and connections the Secretary of State has no
other knowledge than is afforded by a certificate of proficiency and
fitness granted them by the Civil Service Commissioners, after an
open competitive examination." Inference: Keep the Foreign Office
doors at least shut against writers, and competition-wallahs, and
all that low class of people who trust for advancement to their
work, their wits, and a Civil Service certificate.

Where all the bags are full of cats, none but persons of known
antecedents and connections should be admitted to handle the
strings. Competition and examination may supply the sort of
article"wanted for the lower Offices; but leave the Olympian Office
which has to deal with the Eleusinian mysteries of Diplomacy, to
look for its Clerks to the "good old rule—the simple plan"—of
nomination and family favour.

Yery plausibly pleaded, my Lord Hammond. Competitive exami-
nation has been hard ridden. All that doctrinairism could do to
discredit its pet panacea, it has done. There is only one thing
worse; and that is the old principle of patronage, in whose favour
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