15 MARCH 1890, Page 3

We regret to hear of the sudden death of Baron

Dowse, of the Irish Exchequer, who took so prominent a part in the Irish debates of Mr. Gladstone's first Government, between 1868 and 1872. He was not only a very able and keen politician, but he was a humorist of a high order, and enter. tained the House of twenty years ago with a far more attractive vivacity than Mr. Bernal Osborne, who was a contemporary wit of the same period, and had perhaps even higher reputation for satiric pungency.