11 JANUARY 1890, page 15

Lord Palmerston On A Deputation.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—May not Lord Palmerston's definition, as remembered in " The Days of the Dandies," admit of a conjectural emenda- tion? Is not the true......

"has The Peace Movement Been A Failure ?"

Pre THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." j SIR, —The above words are a quotation from your review of the biography of the late Henry Richard, in the Spectator of December 7th, 1889,......

The Depopulation Of Ireland.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—By my statement that the population of the Eastern half of Ireland is " thicker " than that of the Western half, I did not imagine I......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator. "]

SIR,—What your correspondents call the depopulation of Ireland is the reduction of the density of its population to about that of France or Germany. The consolidation of farms......

William Dampier.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — As a member of the family of the old navigator, Wil- liam Dampier, I was much interested in your able and appre- ciative review of......