27 OCTOBER 1906, Page 3

We note with much regret the death of Colonel Sanderson,

who had sat for North Armagh since 1885. Colonel Saunderson, though an Orangeman as well as an uncompromising Unionist, was personally popular with the Nationalists, as, indeed, with all parties in the House, and his fine qualities and great services were admirably summed up by Mr. Balfour in his speech at Manchester on Monday. " Colonel Saunderson," said Mr. Balfour, "fought many a good fight with undaunted courage, with never-failing good humour, with a sharp tongue, great eloquence, with great power, but in a manner which never made his own countrymen, however much they might differ from him in politics, feel that he was ever other than a true friend of Ireland."