THE IRISH FEELING FOR ENGLISHMEN.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article of the 11th of this month, on "Race- hatred in India," you say incidentally that the Englishman "is not seen and talkei to anywhere by men of a different race so much as he is in Ireland, and he is not hated quite so much anywhere else." This is altogether a misconception. In Ire- land there is plenty of hatred for the English Government, and, perhaps, for England as a nation, but none for Englishmen as individuals. Race-hatred, where there is a difference in colour, and merely national hatred, where there is no difference of colour, differ not in degree, but in kind. Irish hatred to England is amply accounted for by -historical circumstances, and, unfor- tunately, the saying that "the effect ceases with the cause," is seldom true in the moral relations of men.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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