The Marquis of Clauricarde.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 13

The Marquis of Clauricarde.

A o«or> doal will be heard of the /v-'arquis of Clanricarde within the next few weeks, and some particulars may be interesting, writes the London correspondent of the "Sheffield Independent." He is the second son of the late Marquis of Clauriearde. Lord Dunkellin, the eldest; Bon, had a political notoriety of a few weeks in ISG6, for it was he who moved the amendment and proved fatal to the Ruasell-Gladstono Reform Bill and Ministry Lord Dunkellin was a v I veu?' of the freest type, aud was forty yoars of age when he died. There are many curious stories told of his life, which the pen of Zola could best do justice to, but perhaps the story ef his deathbed is sufficiently characteristic. He aeked bin doctor how long he had to live, was told a couple of hours, and thereupon ho requested hia valet to wind up the musical box, and it was while listening to the strains of melody that he went to his rest. His brother, up to the time, waa known as Lord Canning His mother was a sister of Lord Canning, and he took the title when he inhei ited tha property. The old Marquia of Clanricavd© was mixed up in all sorta of scandal, and he had to be dismissed even by the easj'-going Lord Palmerston from the PostmasterGoneralship in consequence. Lord Canning sat for a while as member for the county Galway, and during this period there ia a vaguo tradition of his having paid his estate a visit. It was the only occasion within living memory when he waa eeen in this country, or on hia 51,000 broad acrea, from which he drawe, nevertheless, the handsome income of thirty thousand sterling a year. He is an ex-Attachd at Turin, he is still a bachelor, lives in the Albany, once made famousas the residence of Macauley— and, if I mistake not, of Byron — and is only known to his tenants by demands for rent and eviction notices. There are two small towns on his property — Loughreaand Poitumna. On these ho haa consistently rofuecd to spend a penny, with tbe result, that they are both in an advanced state of decay, while pauperism has increased in them to an alarming degree, and when win ter comes bands of men parade the street, besiege the doors of the Bishop and the clergy, clamouring for bread and work, and even in the west of Ireland there are no towns so desolate or so hopeless. The Notional League has shown very good judgment in its selection of a test case.

We presume Cain's father-in-law was an Nod fellow, aa he got his wife from tho land Qf Nod,