The jaunty footsteps of Mr. Phineas Finn
are not heard ascending the stairs of any office at about
two in the afternoon, as used to be the case in one of
those blessed Downing Street abodes about three years
since. That scandal is, we think, over,--and for ever. The
good-looking Irish member of Parliament who had been put
in possession of a handsome salary by feminine influences,
will not, we think, after what we have already said, again
become a burden on the public purse. But we cannot say
that we are as yet satisfied in this matter, or that we
believe that the public has got to the bottom of it,--as
it has a right to do in reference to all matters affecting
the public service. We have never yet learned why it is
that Mr. Bonteen, after having been nominated Chancellor
of the Exchequer,--for the appointment to that office
was declared in the House of Commons by the head of his
party,--was afterwards excluded from the Cabinet, and
placed in an office made peculiarly subordinate by the
fact of that exclusion.
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