MR. GIBSON. BOWLES AND THE IRISH VOTE.
r.r. TRH EDITOR or TIl" SPROTATOR."1 SIR,—A thoughtful friend having sent me the Spectator of March 6th, I find that you therein charge me with "change of front on the question of Home-rule," and with "willingness to betray the cause of the Union in order to get the Irish vote" at Glasgow. "Change of front" is only one of those figurative expressions, borrowed from your military career, which may mean something or nothing. If it means any- thing, it is untrue; if nothing, it matters not. But that I showed willingness to betray any cause or anything whatever in order to get votes is a definite charge which you must know to be false, for you make it the day after the publication of my demonstration of its falsity. If I thought anything you say of any consequence, or yourself accessible to any sense of fairness, I should call on you to withdraw your false state- ment. But I think neither.—I am, Sir, &c., THOS. GinsoN BOWLES.
[As he desires it, we publish Mr. Gibson Bowles's letter. Such communications are best left to answer themselves.— ED. Spectatorl
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