Mr. Horsman, M.P. for Liskeard, and nicknamed by Mr. Disraeli
" a superior person," from a certain air of assumption in his manner, died on Thursday, at Biarritz (where he had been staying for the benefit of his health), at the age of sixty-nine. He was a failure as a Minister, indeed, as Irish Secretary—a post filled by him between 1855 and 1857—he never exerted him- self at all ; but he was an accomplished orator, and no one knew better how to charm the ear of the House of Commons. He was a chief member of " the Cave of Adullam," as the Liberal mutineers against the Liberal „Government of 1866 were called at the time, and made his last great speech, we believe, against Mr. Glad- stone's Irish University Bill in 1873. His death vacates the seat for Liskeard, which will soon be filled probably by Mr. Leonard Courtney, who ran Mr. Horsman so hard at the last contest.
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