THE COMMITTEE ON IRISH AFFAIRS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
am reminded by a paragraph in the Spectator of the 5th inst. that a Committee has been formed for keeping the English public well informed as to Irish affairs. I think I shall not be
• Bat not made by us.—BDrros.
alone in earnestly wishing that the Committee would also add to its work the devising some means by which the Irish public might be kept informed of English feeling towards Ireland, and of the aims and methods by which English statesmen have en- deavoured, and are endeavouring, to rectify the injustice of the past.
How densely ignorant the great mass of the Irish people still is on this subject, it is difficult to conceive, till we realise the fact that no English papers have any circulation in Ireland, and that, save, perhaps, in Dublin, even in the towns no English paper is procurable. As a necessary result, the views of English statesmen, the opinions of English writers, the words of English speakers are known only in so far and in such form as may suit the purpose of political partisans in Ireland.
I can conceive no work more likely to leaven the feelings of dislike and distrust with which the best efforts of English poli- ticians a-e still regarded by the bulk of Irishmen, and which so hurt and disappoint many of the true friends of Ireland among us, as some method of disseminating among the Irish people fair and true reports of what is really being done and said in England on the matter of legislative measures for Ireland.—I
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