20 JUNE 1896, Page 16

"BULLS."

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—A correspondent in the Spectator of May 16th appears to believe that " bulls " are not especially fostered by the Irish climate, but to support the opposite view I venture to offer the following. When I was a very small boy my parents took me abroad and we landed at Queenstown. While sitting in the cars waiting for the train to start I called my father's atten- tion to a ship far out in the harbour. "Oh papa, see that ship way out of sight of land ?" For a young American to indulge in snail a remark within an hour of touching Irish soil points, I think, to some subtle influence of the Celtic island on the wits of its inhabitants.—I am, Sir, &c.,