The elevation of the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, Sir
Michael Morris, to be Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, in the place of Lord Fitzgerald, will secure for London the frequent presence of one of the ablest and the most humorous of the Irish Judges. Sir Michael Morris, who has been twenty-two years on the Irish Bench, and has secured the respect of all his colleagues and the hearty good-will of the whole Irish Bar, professed on Monday that, in coming to London for at least a part of the year, he should not be in any degree de. nationalised. Of that every one who knows him would have been perfectly sure, without his own word for it. He is one of those Irishmen who dearly love to exaggerate his Hiberai. cism, rather than to minimise it Indeed, it was of him, when he regretted, after a wedding, that he had not a shoe to fling after the bride, that a witty friend said : " Ah then, why don't you throw your brogue after her P"
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