It is no secret that for the last two years Lady
Laura Kennedy has been separated from her husband,
the Honourable Robert Kennedy, who, in the last
administration, under Mr. Mildmay, held the office of
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; and we believe as
little a secret that Mr. Kennedy has been very persistent
in endeavouring to recall his wife to her home. With equal
persistence she has refused to obey, and we have in our
hands the clearest possible evidence that Mr. Kennedy has
attributed her obstinate refusal to influence exercised
over her by Mr. Phineas Finn, who three years since was
her father's nominee for the then existing borough of
Loughton, and who lately succeeded in ousting poor Mr.
Browborough from his seat for Tankerville by his impetuous
promises to support that very measure of Church Reform
which he is now opposing with that venom which makes him
valuable to his party. Whether Mr. Phineas Finn will ever
sit in another Parliament we cannot, of course, say, but
we think we can at least assure him that he will never
again sit for Tankerville.
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