[To ran EDrr012 OP THE "SPROTATOR."1 Srn,—Mr. Stephen Gwynn's statement
in your last issue that a Nationalist board has elected a Protestant as medical superintendent to the Monaghan County Asylum is highly misleading. He made a. similar blunder in The Nation. I promptly contradicted the statement ; but The Nation did not publish my letter, so Mr. Gwynn has had a free run for the time being. Being a Monaghan man, and conversant with the affairs of my native county, pray allow me to point out that not only has the Nationalist committee of the Monaghan Asylum appointed a Roman Catholic as medical superintendent, but both his recently
appointed assistants are Roman Catholics. Further, as the old officials retire or die, their places are invariably filled by Roman. Catholics, so that now only a couple of Protestants, holding minor posts, are on the Asylum staff— and this, mark you, in a county in which tolerance is, according to Mr. Gwynn, at high-water mark !—I am,
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