The effect upon Mr. Finn, we should say, must be his
immediate withdrawal from public life. For the last year
or two he has held some subordinate but permanent place
in Ireland, which he has given up on the rumour that the
party to which he has attached himself is likely to return
to office. That he is a seeker after office is notorious.
That any possible Government should now employ him, even
as a tide-waiter, is quite out of the question; and it
is equally out of the question that he should be again
returned to Parliament, were he to resign his seat on
accepting office. As it is, we believe, notorious that
this gentlemen cannot maintain the position which he holds
without being paid for his services, it is reasonable to
suppose that his friends will recommend him to retire, and
seek his living in some obscure, and, let us hope, honest
profession.
Mr. Slide, when his thunderbolt was prepared, read it over with
delight, but still with some fear as to probable results.
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