16 MARCH 1895, Page 16

THE "NEW MAGISTRATE" IN IRELAND. [To THI Elms OF THR

"SFICTATOR."] SI11,—In commenting on a recent °biter dictum of one of Mr. Morley's Magistrates, in the Spectator of March 9th, you write :—" The idea that people who refrain from shooting you on the mountain are acting leniently towards you, is deliciously Irish." Perhaps so ; but are not these wild Irish

instincts fearfully second-hand And is not that Irish Magistrate a vulgarly literal copy of the old Greek tyrants of whom Maffei wrote in " Merope " :—

" Eeco il don dei tiranni ; a lor rassembra

Morte non dando altrui, di dar In vita."