20 MAY 1916, Page 11

SINN FEIN.

To Till EDITOR 07 THE "SPEOTATOR.1 Ere,—The ill-success of Mr. Birrell's administration of Ireland is accounted for by Tacitus, or perhaps I ought rather to say by Thrasea, in eight words : " Plura seeps peccantur, dam demeremur, quam dam offendiinus " (" We do more harm when we are earning good opinions than when we are giving offence"}—(Ann, XV. 21).—I am, Sir, &o., FRANK Passers.,