In view of Lord Curzon's recent lection as one of the representative Irish peers in the House of Lords, the following letter is of interest as indicating some of the undercurrents of political fecting which threatened to debar him from public life. The letter which is addressed. to the Irish peers is dated Hackwood, Basingstoke, December 27, 1907, and is as follows My Lord,—Having been asked by Shanghai, Febra.ry 10. influential members of the Irish Before F, 8. A. Hours Esy., peerage to allow myself to be nomina Assistant Judge. ated for the vacancy among the representative peers caused by the
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