Mr. Bright avoids speaking on Ireland, but the following letter
shows that his judgment is as accurate and his powers of -expression as forcible as ever:" Reform Club, Pall Mall, S.W., May 10th, 1887. Dear Sir,—You do not seem to be aware that all the charges of the Times consist of evidence contributed by the rebel conspirators themselves. They are statements drawn from United Ireland in Dublin, from the Irish World in New York, and from other papers, edited by or the property of active men of the conspiracy. The facts are their own facts. The Times has not invented them; it has only put them in order, eo that the public may understand the case. Parliament has really nothing to do with the matter. These conspirators and their papers have charged Lord Spencer and Mr. Forster with murder, and with hanging men of whose innocence they were well assured ; but Parliament did not interfere to defend the Irish writers and speakers. The Courts are open. Why should Parliament assume the duties and the labour of the ordinary Courts of Justice P"
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