Coulsons' are those of the Messrs.

Richardson and Co.

and the Messrs.

Barbour.
Lord Dufferin has written the ablest defence of the Irish landlords that has ever appeared.

In that masterly work he says: 'But though a dealer in land and a payer of wages, I am above all things an Irishman, and as an Irishman I rejoice in any circumstance which tends to strengthen the independence of the tenant farmer, or to add to the comfort of the labourer's existence.' If titles and possessions implied the inheritance of religion and blood, Lord Dufferin ought indeed to be 'Irish of the Irish' as the men of Ulster in the olden times proudly called themselves.