Life of the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne: Late Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Sometime Also Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief-Justice of the Queen's Bench, and Lord Justice of Appeal, Chiefly in Connection with His Public and Political Career

Excerpt from Life of the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne: Late Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Sometime Also Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief-Justice of the Queen's Bench, and Lord Justice of Appeal, Chiefly in Connection With His Public and Political Career

The eminent man, to a narrative of whose public life and services the following pages are chiefly devoted, was one of those who, by their great intellect and character, have at different periods, but at rare intervals, played a conspicuous part in the history of their respective countries, and who have left a mark which Time will but slowly, if ever, efi'ace.

The story of the life of such a man cannot but prove of interest to the general reader, but this interest is greatly enhanced when the circumstances of the times in which he lived, and the arena in which his distinctions were won, are borne in mind. Ireland has been styled the battle-field of party, but it was more than this at the period when he was first called on to take a part in her afi'airs.

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