P82: 1921.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In a well-known weekly journal, which, to do it justice. is in favour of the proposed Anglo-Irish pact, we read, in reference to the debate in the Dail, that
"intense hostility to the settlement is natural in the speeches of the widow of the Mayor of Limerick and the sister of the Lord Mayor of Cork."
Others, similarly placed, have felt and spoken differently. It will be remembered that after the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish in the Phoenix Park, in April, 1882, the first act of his widow was to write to Mr. Gladstone, the then Prime Minister, to request that the tragedy might not affect the policy of conciliation. towards Ireland to which his Govern- ment was pledged. Autres temps, autres mocurs.—I am, Sir,
Ashby St. Ledgers.
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