If there were any reason wanted to justify the English
people iu the distrust which they evidently feel for the Mansion-House Committee as an Executive Committee for interfering in the proprietary disputes of Irishmen, it would be the uncandid conduct of the Lord Mayor in quoting a word or two from Mr. Gladstone's telegram, and not quoting the whole telegraphic correspondence, the effect of which would have been unfavour- able to his end. The Prime Minister had distinctly declined to advise on the subject of an English association to interfere in a movement, the justifiability of which in Ireland he had fully admitted. But the Lord Mayor gave the Mansion-House meeting the impression that the Prime Minister's sanction had been obtained for the very movement which he was inaugurating. This was not the fact. And this want of candour will do much to prejudice the fund, which, iudeed, is by no means prospering, as public funds for great purposes, proposed by a Lord Mayor of London, usually do prosper.
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