The Daily Chronicle awards to Mr. Maurice Healy the credit
of having made the first Irish " bull" in the new Parliament. Complaining that Irish Local Town Commissioners do not possess the same power as English Town Councils to hold property in a corporate capacity, he described the consequence* as being that each member had to hold the town's property as a private individual, and continued to be responsible for it after he had ceased to be a Town Commissioner. " What is worse, Mr. Lowther," proceeded Mr. Maurice Healy, "every time he dies the same difficulty occurs." After all, the blunder was only in the wording, not in the thought. Mr. Maurice Healy thought of the abstract Town Commissioner as being, as it were, incarnate in one individuality after another,—a conception which represents the legal features of the case with perfect accuracy. You may fitly speak of John Doe or Richard Roe as dying in one personality to come to life again in another. "Bulls" are often more picturesque expositions of general principles than any example of them reported with grammatical accuracy could ever be.
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