Why does the Tines insert with all the honours the
letters signed " E. P. B." ? So far as we can remember, those initials have for fifteen years or more uniformly appeared at the bottom of letters intended to injure Liberal policy, by virtue of insinua- tions conveyed from a professedly Liberal point of view. In the letter thus signed which appeared in Tuesday's Times, "E. P. B.," after complaining that Parliament is not summoned for January to deal with Irish affairs, goes on to say,—" That the [Irish] landlords are running away from the spectre of Assassination might, no doubt, he gratifying to the feelings of some one or more among the Cabinet ; their public utterances have led to the belief that it is so." No insinuation could be more damag- ing, or, so far as we know, more completely without foundation. A. letter in which it occurs, and occurs without an attempt at the verification of what is hinted, should be regarded with sus- picion and indignation by all straightforward men, no matter in what type the Times may choose to make it public.
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