We note the death of Mr. Diehard Berridge, formerly a
partner in Meux's brewery, and remarkable as the owner of the largest and wildest estate in Ireland, the huge property once possessed by the reckless protector of animals, "Dick Martin," in what Byron called the "pathless wilds of Connemara." He was owner of 170,500 acres, or 265 square miles, yielding, how- ever, only 29,000 a year. No landlord in Ireland approached Mr. Berridge in acreage; but by some misadventure or other, the National League seems to have let him very much alone. No property so extensive is likely ever again to exist in Ireland, and it will be curious, if it is sold, to see what it is worth. Nobody but a capitalist could hold it, and the capitalist who under present circumstances would sink a great sum in buying wild land in Ireland, must have immense con- fidence either in himself or in Rome-rule. Suppose Mr. Brunner proves the sincerity of his convictions by the purchase. If his view is correct, and Home-rule comes, Ballynahincis would bejnst the paradise for him,
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