CIIURCIi EXCLUSIVENESS.
[To THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR:
SIR,—The incidental allusion to the Conservative politics of Irish Dissenters which occurs in my former letter ought to have been qualified, as your correspondent, "J. II. C.," points out, by the exception of the North of Ireland. I referred more especially to this neighbourhood, though the printer's omission of the word "Dublin," in the subscription to my letter, gave my assertion a larger meaning than it was intended to convey.
Your correspondent, " J. Ii. C.," does not, however, say that the Church exclusiveness is any less in the province of Ulster than it is elsewhere. Failing explanation from any of your clerical readers, I should be glad if you, Sir, for the sake of plain men like myself, would throw some light on the attitude of the clergy towards their Nonconformist brethren,— an attitude of aloofness, if not of hostility, which is surely inimical to true religion, and at variance with Christian charity.—I am, &c.,
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