SIR,-I venture to offer a scheme for the adjustment of

the representation of Ireland. The average constituency would be 10,547, and the total representation 66. To the scheme itself I do not think any reasonable Home-ruler could object. Progressive Deny goes the way of decadent, Jew-baiting Limerick. In the Home-rule constituencies there are no varied interests ; all alike represent the hierarchy, the small farmers, and the publicans,-hence it does not much matter that Longford, with 7,798 electors, and Leitrim, with 13,420, should each be represented by one Member. Sligo and Ros- common would be divided into three constituencies ; Carlow and Wexford into two constituencies. For the four wretched little constituencies of Waterford, Kilkenny, Galway, and Newry surely no words can be said in arrest of judgment. As for Dublin University, might not its electorate be enlarged so as to include all graduates, or at least all graduates with honours ? What Ireland needs is rest, and there is absolutely no reason for unrest. Catholic ascendency is firmly estab- lished in four-fifths of Ireland, the clergy are wealthy and dominant, and the occupiers of the land enjoy opportunities which are denied to English and Scotch farmers, and which have, in fact, no parallel elsewhere in the world. But no one who does not live in Ireland can estimate the mischief caused by multiplied centres of sedition and senseless hatred of England, manned by politicians whose raison d'etre is to promote illwill between classes. The scheme I have proposed is doubtless faulty; but faulty as it may be, it makes this claim,-that its adoption would amend the present state of things a hundredfold.-I am, Sir, &c.,

AN OLD CROMWELLIAN.

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