5 FEBRUARY 1910, Page 17

MR. ASQUITH'S MAJORITY.

LT0 TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Has any one noted the point that if Mr. Asquith gives Home-rule he deports two thirds of his majority to Ireland ? One can well imagine that he is not keen about that. To turn to lighter matters, I see that Mr. O'Brien has started a paper called the Cork Accent. Let us hope that it will find room for such gaieties as that which once appeared in a Cork paper: "Gardener wants place. Sober, steady, married.

Little or no family."—I am, Sir, &c., V.