IRELAND AND THE CROWN.
go THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR.")
Sra,—Archbishop Whately's sentiments with regard to Vice- royalty in Ireland are in singular harmony with the tone of your short note, in your last week's issue, on Mr. Goldwin's Smith's charge against the Royal Family. At page 364 of the secondvolume of his "Life," he is reported to have said, in course of conversation with Mr. Nassau Senior, "My hope is, that one day the great absentee will return, that the Queen will be an Irish resident." And again, at page 262 of his "Miscellaneous Remains," he writes :—" I should much like to see a real Regal Court in Ireland. A residence of the Sovereign for two or three months annually would do more to make Ireland peaceable and loyal, than all the bullying and all the coaxing that have been
alternately tried."—I am, Sir, &c., A. R. MA.DDISON. Vicar's Court, Lincoln, October 24th.
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