Show tho way to advance the following new story is told of the late lord ampthill Amp thill when he was a junior clerk in the foreign office lord palmerston then foreign secretary in nn innovation whereby instead of being summoned by a verbal message the clerks were expected to answer his bell some haughty spirits rebelled against being treated like footmen and tried to organize re si stance but odo russell as he then was refused to join the rebellious movement saying that whatever method apprised him most quickly of lord wishes was the method which he preferred the aggrieved clerks regarded him aa a traitor to his order but lie died an ambassador |