Mr. Otway Cave has addressed a letter to the Secretary
of the Ge- neral, Association in reference to a paragraph which appeared in the Spectator of the 15th October. In that paragraph it is said, that "Some of the Irish landlords, and among them Mr. George Evans, and we believe Mr. Otway Cave, having objected to the inquiries of the Association relative to the registration of their tenantry, that body has justified itself, in an address to be forwarded to the landowners.' Extracts from the address were then given ; and we concluded by say- ing, that it was applicable to England as well as Ireland, as gentlemen in England were too apt to expect men in dependent circumstances to run risks from which they shrunk themselves. Mr. Otway Cave de- nies that be is liable in any degree to imputations of this kind; as he employs a Liberal agent, fully authorized to facilitate the registration of his tenantry. This is the pith of his letter. We can only say in- reply, that Mr. Cave was spoken of in the Irish papers, and in one at least of the London papers, (we think the Standard,) as an Irish Libe- ral landowner who had protested against the interference of the Asso- ciation in the management of his private property. The address of the Association was founded upon such objections from some parties ; of whom, as we gather from his letter, Mr. Cave was not one. We are therefore sorry that we were misled, by what we read in thelrish papers ;- and we give all the: publicity in our power to Mr. Cave's declaration that it is an " unjust and ungenerous insinuation against him " to say that lie objected to the interference of the Association in the registra- tion of his tenantry. Mr. Otway Cave also takes the opportunity of stating, that he is in favour of the Ballot, and not one of those gentle-
men who refuse to protect the poor voter. [By the way, if these Irish gentlemen would take the trouble to contradict their own newspapers
in the first instance, when erroneous statements are made, it would prevent us from using such statements as the grounds of commentary, to which they seem sensitively alive afterwards. We don't fabricate our facts, however mistakenly we may reason upon them.]
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