IRELAND'S ALIENATION.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
have seen with much satisfaction your remark on the amwise Irish caricature in last week's Punch. A friend of mine, who knows Ireland well (no Fenian, but a high Government -official, as well as a man of great ability), once said to me, "I believe Punch and the Times cost the country tens of thousands a year in mere money, by the effect upon Irish temper of their habitually taunting tone."
If "Rory of the Hills" has earned a halter, it does not follow 'that he is a Caliban in body and mind.
Has the editor of Punch ever seen an average "Tipperary Boy," like those who throng the chapel greens at Clonmel or Cashel of -a Sunday ?
He might be an alarming apparition in the office at 85 Fleet :Street, but would certainly present little likeness to Mr. Tenniel's portrait.
The Times, I am glad to say, has grown much civiller of late. -" Civil words cost nothing,"—and few prize them more than the
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