The politicians of civilized States have for many years made
it a rule to conduct political warfare under the forms of social courtesy, and never to visit the acts of an Administration upon the head of the State. The Earl of Leitrim has just broken both rules. That person, it appears, owns the little hotel of Maam, in Galway, and the Lord-Lieutenant, on his progress, proposed to pass the night there. Lord Leitrim instantly wrote to his tenant, the hotel-keeper, ordering him to fill the hotel with the tenants, or even with workmen, so as to keep out the Lord-Lieutenant. Lord Carlisle, who has no personal quarrel of any kind with Lord Leitrim, was accordingly obliged, with tired hones, to drive on twenty miles further. The insult was, in fact, offered to the Sovereign, and we are happy to perceive that Lord Leitrim has been struck out of the commission of the peace; but Galway should also show her appreciation of the slur cast on her hospitality. Henceforward, we trust, a man whose fire never blazes for a guest will be known as a " Leitrim." The provocation, it appears, was that Lord Leitrim was fired at some time since, and that the police, in his judgment, were not sufficiently acute.
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