LORD CURZON'S GRIEVANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 306, 31 December 1907, Page 2

LORD CURZON'S GRIEVANCE.

AX HUSH PEER. *] Received Doc. 30, 9.50 p.m. *' -®i ixjinlon, December 30. \ 'JH With Lord AbrrcrrVs and Lord Lon(londony'H warm *uj>|.u.l. Unl C'urzon, - «*u letter to the Irish K-i... s to \ * stand for the vacancy due to Luid Kii- § inuiir.' js death, lie explains that the < ! strain of work in India preventa lus 1 $ | seeking a .seat in the House of Commons, 1 I and adds that lie is debarred from enter- *|

ing the House of Lords in the ordinary jl channels by Sir H. Campbell-Banner- Jn > man's refusal to allow him to sit with !» all the other ex-Viceroys of India on liS those benches. (fig] i The Daily News says the letter iaMH '5 amazing, and Ijord Curzon would haveww $ done well to keep his grievance agninstlH •] the English peerage—and he hat* nnlßß I grievance— to himself. |H : j The Times considers Lord Cur4on'sß| 4 claims to a seat in the House of Lords® 1 too clear to need argument. When accepted the Vieeroyalty his ainbitlonH wait to return to the House of In view of that intention, the Irish peer BH age was conferred instead of, as origin-Hj ally intended, the peerage of the UnitedH / Kingdom. It would have been a graeefulfll and becoming act 011 the part of Sir H.ll (iimpbell-Bnnnerm.in to have acceded tefW the n-iiiu'al lid reasonable tions advanced in favor of allowing LorflMl • (urznn to sit in the House of The paper trusts that the Irish peers*W ivill restore to public life a man of 1 eminence whom Sir H. Campbell-Banner-man shuts out.

The Aet of Union with Ireland provided that Ireland should be represented in the House of Lords by a portion of her peers only. Trish peers who have not, been elected lo represent their order ' in the House of Lords may lie returned and sit for any borough or county con- ■ stituency iu Great Britain.