Many peers, who are in no way a disgrace to their order, have come down sadly in these recent timos. A music publisher told mo to-day that he had had a professional visit from a peer of the realm who had become a commercial traveller in tho service of a pianoforte manufacturer. The far-reaching impoverishment of the class will do more to incline the British enob towards depriving them of their legislative privileges than instances of misconduct in individuals. At present bankruptcy is the only oll'onco in the eye of John Bull for which an individual peer is shut out of tho Upper House. Ninoteen thousand more Irishmen left their native laud last year Chan in the year before.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9064, 26 May 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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