BLACKER THAN THEY WERE PAINTED.
[To TER EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."[
SIN—I have only just seen your paper of the 3rd April, in Which there is a notice of the Meath .Diocesan Synod. There I read, in connection with remarks made by certain speakers in favour of disestablishment and disendowment, "And they seem to 11!zre been listened to," evidently wishing to convey the impression that the Meath Diocesan Synod agreed with these speakers, Whose names are already too notorious.
Now, in justice to the diocese, I must say,—and having been Present, can say, and I challenge contradiction,—that they were not listened to in that sense,—that there was a loud, a long, and determined dissent expressed, so loud and so determined that the Bishop had to appeal to the meeting to listen. And the meeting listened in another sense, in obedience to the chair, and listened most uneasily and most unwillingly.
A reporter was present, and the very thing to be dreaded just happened,--that because they were listened to at all, it was reported, " And they seem to have been listened to ;" while the reporter himself must have known that the contrary was the fact, for even after the Bishop's appeal, the obis-rations expressed called forth so much unanimous dissent flat I am sure the speakers did not say all they wished to say, and they had to yield as quickly and as gracefully as they could. Apologizing for trespassing on your space, I am, Sir, &c., Htron GELSTON, Rector of Enniskeen, Diocese of Meath. Enniskeen Rectory, Kingscourt, April 20, 1869.
[We are sorry for the Meath Diocesan Synod.—En. Spectator.]
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