Mr. Sullivan, M.P. for Louth, writes to the Times. of
Tuesday, to complain that the Government have appointed a second Judge to the Irish Landed Estates Court, in spite of Lord Cairns's public disclaimer last Session of any intention on the part of the Govern- ment to fill up that superfluous office, and of the notorious silence of Judge Flannagan, the Judge who has recently done the whole work of the Court, as to his need of a colleague. Mr. Ormsby has been appointed to the second Judgeship, and Mr. Sullivan describes it as a mere bit of "Bar-bribery," without excuse or even palliation. Mr. Sullivan is very eloquent as to the credit he innocently gave the Government for good faith in this matter. "I am ready to face all consequences, all prejudice, all hostility, when I think public duty compels me, in that House [the House of Commons], but 1 will never lend myself to a policy of thinking evil of my adversaries on matters of veracity or good faith." That is very spirited of Mr. Sullivan, but if we remember rightly the details of his campaign in Louth against an adversary who was not Conser- vative; but Liberal, he did at that time lend himself to such a policy rather freely. Let us hope that he now sees the error of his ways.
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