A remarkable personality has passed away inthe person of Lord Mons and Killanin, sometime Lord Chief Justice of Treland and afterwards Lord of Appeal. When he resigned the latter office to make a vacancy for the elevation to the Bench of Sir Richard Webster, now Lord Alversione, he had been on the Bench for thirty-three years, He will not, however, be numbered among our great Iawyers; but his keen intellect, his sarcastic wit, and hi: eccentricities will fill volumes of reminiseences. He spoke always with an exaggerated Trish brogue, and although an uncompromising Unionist, he strove to maintain, and succeeded in maintaining a
of Galway. To this personal popularity marvellous popularity among, the people was due the suees of his son in Galway City at the last General Election. That a Unionist should win a seat in Galway, was regarded as something approaching a miracle; and it may safely be said that no Unionist but a member of the Morris family could ha stood the ghost of a chance. That son has now succeeded his father as Lord Killanin—the title of Lord Morris, as that of a life peer, becomes extinet—and it is understood that another Morris, the late peer's youngest son, will be put up as the unionist candidate, that affording the only hope of retaining the seat.
Mr. McKinley.
The gloomy news of President McKinley's relapse has come as a painful shock here, for we had been led to believe that his progress towards recovery from the ussassin's bullet was so marked as to remove all fear of a fatal termination. The official bulletins have been as eagerly awaited as they would have been had it been a member of our own Royal family that had been attacked; and in the present state of mind of the British public there would be little difficulty in obtaining a vote m favour of the most drastic measures for the suppression of the curse of Anarchism.
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