[To rim Enrros or THE "SPECTATOR. "]
SIR, —I note that any one who may desire to attack me for laughing at the opera-bouffe manifestations in Ulster has the hospitality of your columns, but you are not so ready to publish my retorts. I regret that neither you nor your correspondents can see the funny side of a pot-valiant mob of hired political agitators marching about with toy guns unde.: the leadership of some of the biggest mountebanks in the political world, and that you are determined to take Sir E. Carson's flapdoodle seriously. Since such is the case, it may interest your readers to know that I, too, can regard the Ulster Covenant in a different light. It disgusts me to hear of ministers of religion inciting their congregations to religious intolerance ; as an Irishman, it disgusts me to see my country- men trying to create bad blood between Irishmen of different schools of thought ; and as an ex-soldier, it disgusts me to see the Union Jack flaunted as a party emblem ! I challenge any Orangeman to tell of a British victory within the last century and a half which would not have been a British defeat had it not been for the Irish Catholic soldiers fight- ing under the British flag, and I challenge him to tell me of a single good work which the Orange Party has done for Ireland, for the Empire, or for mankind !—I am, Sir, &c., HENRY DE MONTMORENCY.
51 Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, W.
[We cannot undertake to publish replies to Mr. de Mont- morency's challenge. We must endure to be told that we say this because we dare not, and are running away from a true-bred Irishman, as Englishmen always do. That is, we admit, a very poor imitation of Mr. de Montmorency's style, but it must serve.—En. Spectator.]
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