THE IRISH LANDLORDS' CONVENTION. [To THE EDITOR 07 THZ ..13PZCTATO.")
Sur,—The paragraph in the Spectator of December 17th on the Irish Landlords' Convention seems to be founded on an in- accurate report of the transactions of that body. So far from asking that family charges should be zednced, the Convention,
by a very large majority, resolved—" That it is neither just nor politic to make any compulsory reduction of the interest on mortgages, and that it is practically impossible to draw any distinction between mortgages and family charges." Nothing was more applauded by the Convention than Mr. Bagwell's appeal not to do "anything whatever that savoured of an act of complicity with those evil, dishonest men who had preached all over the world the repudiation of the most sacred obligations, as by doing so they would be placing themselves in a position no better than that occupied by those men whom they were spending their lives in fighting," nor "to condemn that Con- vention to sterility and impotence by asking to interfere with jointures and annuities, with the portions of the widow and the orphan."—I am, Sir, &a, H. DE F. MONTGOMERY. Bleseingbourne, Fivemilelown, Co. Tyrone, December 20th.
[We think there is an obvious distinction between family charges and mortgages.—ED. Spectator.]
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