6 SEPTEMBER 1919, Page 11

THE " FREEMAN'S JOURNAL."

[To THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECIATOR."] EIS,—It may not be without interest for your readers that on Thursday, August 28th, in the Dublin Courts, Mr. Justice Samuels made an order for winding up the affairs of the Freeman's Journal, so long the chief organ of the Irish Nationalists, and latterly that of the so-called "Constitutional " Party, led' by Mr. Dillon, Mr. T. P. O'Connor, and Mr. Devlin. According to the Times itself, that was the only Irish newspaper that gave even a " sympathetic " though " cautious " reception to the much-vaunted Times scheme for settling the insoluble Irish problem. If the "Constitutional" Party is still as strong in Ireland as the Times would have the nation believe, how is the collapse of the last bulwark of that " powerful "