24 MAY 1873, Page 3

We call attention with pleasure to the letter of Mr.

Spaight in another column, vindicating the populace of Limerick from the charge made against it of rather barbarous behaviour on the occasion of the recent visit of Lord and Lady Spencer. It is a pity that such manifestations, when they do occur, should be mag- nified or otherwise misrepresented. It is a pity, too, we think, that one or two of the offenders were not threatened with a ducking in the Shannon, pour encourager les autres. That is what would have happened, if anyone had hissed Lord Anglesey or Lord Normanby ; and neither was a better Viceroy than Lord Spencer.