As we predicted on its introduction, Sir Colman O'Loghlen has
been compelled to withdraw his Irish Peerage. Bill; it trenched on the prerogative, and he had not obtained the Queen's consent. Apart from the general question whether rank without duties is ever beneficial, whether every Peer ought not to help in legislation, the Irish and Scotch Peers have both one serious grievance. The Scotch, though not Peers of Parliament, cannot sit in the -Commons at all, and the Irish Peers cannot sit unless elected in England. Dublin, for example, could not have returned Lord Palmerston. If the Conservative party want to do a really great stroke of business, secure at least twenty aristocratic seats, they -will remedy that anomaly. The Earl of Breadalbane's seat for _Perthshire, for example, would not be a very insecure one.
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