Finn. Great efforts were made by various
ladies of the old Whig party to obtain official employment
for him, but they were made in vain. Mr. Gresham was too
wise, and our advice,--we will not say was followed,--but
was found to agree with the decision of the Prime
Minister. Mr. Finn was left out in the cold in spite
of his great friends,--and then came the murder of Mr.
Bonteen.
Can it be that Mr. Finn's fitness for Parliamentary duties
has been increased by Mr. Bonteen's unfortunate death, or
by the fact that Mr. Bonteen was murdered by other hands
than his own? We think not. The wretched husband, who,
in the madness of jealousy, fired a pistol at this young
man's head, has since died in his madness. Does that
incident in the drama give Mr. Finn any special claim to
consideration? We think not;--and we think also that the
electors of Tankerville would have done better had they
allowed Mr. Finn to return to that obscurity which he
seems to have desired.
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