The Nationalist Member who avowed his hope that he might
delay the Bill for giving a salary to Colonel King-Harman till it had at least mulcted him of 2100, will have the satisfaction of thinking that he has succeeded in depriving him of his salary altogether, for Colonel King-Harman died last Sunday morning at his residence, Rockingham, Boyle, worn out partly by grief for the death of his son, partly by the venomous attacks made upon him in Parliament, partly by a weakness of the heart. He was hardly a wise politician, and his Orange sympathies made the selection of him for Parliamentary Tinder-Secretary an unwise one ; but he was very much loved by his friends, and showed a gallantry and coolness in the House which justified to some extent Mr. Balfour's choice. He was born in 1838, and was therefore only fifty years of age. The violence of the Parnellite attacks upon him, and the com- posure with which he bore them, conferred on him a popularity in England which he might not otherwise have gained. Sir George Trevelyan will sorely miss Colonel King-Harman. He can hardly in future make the King-Harman appointment the chief theme of his philippics against the Government. .
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