“I was walking through St. James’s Park to-day and seeing Lord John Russell mounting his horse at the Paymaster’s door, I went up merely to have a word with him about Graham’s ridiculous conduct in the House last night.* He put out his hand saying:—‘Ah! Treasurer, how d’ye do?’ to which I replied:—‘Ah! Treasurer for how long?’ He laughed and said nothing. Now, as he never called me treasurer before, and he must know if the place is to live only a few weeks longer, he surely could not have addressed me in this way as a joke.”
