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Evening Star, Issue 12722, 27 January 1906, Page 4

The “cabby” who drove Sir Hoary Camp-bell-Bannerman to Buckingham Palace and waited until the interview with the King, which transformed the Leader of the Opposition into the Prime Minister, was over is Arthur Knightsbridge. As to Sir Henry’s position, Knightsbridge is indiffercnt. “I don’t care whether he is the Prime Minister or who he is,” he remarked to an interviewer. “He pays well, and that’s the man for roe.". Then he related that Sir Henry had no thought of the legal fare, but gave him a gold coin on his return to Bel grave square. There is a curious anecdote of Lord Granville’s maiden speech in 1837, says the December ‘Blackwood.’ He sat in a little group behind the Ministerial bench, next to Henry Bulwer, who muttered to his neighbor his replies to orators on the other side, and then rose to reply to Sir Stratford : Canning. Lord Leveson, as he then was, claimed his precedence as new member, and Bulwer heard, to his dismay, all his points unfolded to the House and rewarded by its cheers. It is said that he enjoyed the joke as much as anybody. - The only two animals with Kraiwt hcaserthaai timae-of ■a.:- maa-taa^tiiOMPbiala.