Yesterday week, Lord Bra,bourne—in a pompous speech, in which he
rehearsed, amidst no slight laughter, the com- punctions which he experienced in attacking a Minister who had conferred upon him a peerage—called attention to the selections made of Sub-Commissioners for the Irish Land Court, which he condemned in very unsparing terms,—speaking, for in- stance, of one of them as a "publican," when the fact was that he -had been, before his appointment, the owner of a country store which, seven years previously, had had a public-house at- tached to it. This man had been since elected coroner, had been made, some time ago, a justice of the peace, and had a good, practical knowledge of the value of land. Lord Carlingford ex- posed most of Lord Brabourne's exaggerations, but did not flatter him by suggesting that Mr. Gladstone had bitterly repented making him a Peer. Indeed, Lord Brabourne might appeal to his speech of Friday week to prove that he is of "such stuff as Peers are made of,"—that stuff being, in the main, the habit of receiving rent, and thinking that the laws of God are pledged to the eternal sacredness of that habit,—and the habit of regarding all persons who, for whatever reason, appear to impugn the necessary sacredness of rent as rebels against the divine order of human life. Lord Brabourue's speech led to nothing,--which was a very natural and adequate result.
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