13 MAY 1899, page 14

The Irish County Elections. [to The Editor Of 1/3:13...

Sut,—The subjoined extract from a letter from Ireland may interest your readers :— " There is nothing talked of now but hunting and racehorses ; that is since the elections are......

Letters To' The Editor.

THE JURISDICTION OF THE ARCHBISHOPS. . [To TIM EDITOR OP TUB "SPECTATOR."] you permit me to touch on two points only of " W. N. L.'s " reply to my letter (1) I am astonished to......

Lord Salisbury And Prince Bismarck.

[To TnE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIR, —In the Spectator of May 6th you say: "If it be true, as is reported, that Bismarck described him (Lord Salisbury) as a lath of wood......

The Transvaal Crisis.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In a short paragraph on the Transvaal crisis in the Spectator of May 6th you ask international lawyers what is the effect of a subject......

(to The Editor Of Tee "spectator. " ] Sir, — The Irish...

have gone as any one who knows the country would expect. As Mr. Devitt puts it, "He has wiped the floor with his political opponents," and for once "has nothing to complain of."......

The Cape Coi.qny And Tra Transvaal. Ire The Eouort Of

THE " SPEcTATOR.") Sfa,—Your correspondent Mr. A. J. Bailey, in the Speckttor of May 6th, is hardly correct in saying that some five years ago the farmers of the Cape Colony......