Canon MacColl has sent to Thursday's Westminster Gazette a very
pleasant and lively sketch of the late Lord Waterford, whose tragic death last week, under some momentary access of profound depression, has caused so deep a regret both in Ireland and England. He was a very able as well as a very benevolent man, and not only managed his own estates very liberally and very well, but mastered all the technicalities of
Mr. Gladstone's Irish Land Bill of 1581, which he is said to have understood as completely as did Mr. Gladstone himself or Mr. Healy. He was a great sufferer from an old fall in the hunting-field, the injury of which was more or less renewed by a slight accident during last summer. It is a pity that he was never tried as Irish Lord-Lieutenant. He was very popular in Ireland, a first-rate man of business, and an -effective speaker ; but though Mr. Disraeli tried to get him into official life when he was Lord Tyrone, and failed only through Lord Tyrone's own self-distrust, the attempt seems never to have been repeated.
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