SIR C. GAVAN DUFFY AND THE IRISH CIVIL SER VICE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR."1
SIR,—I am lost in astonishment to read the following state- ment in Sir C. Gavan Duffy's communication to you in the Spectator of May 20th :—" Nearly two hundred years ago, Swift pronounced it to be an intolerable grievance that Englishmen should be employed almost exclusively in the public service of Ireland, and the intolerable grievance has not ceased to this day." (The italics are mine.) Now, Sir, I should be greatly surprised if Sir C. Gavan Duffy or any one else could adduce proof that even 10 per cent, of the Civil servants in Ireland are of English extraction. I believe them, from my own experience, with the exception of the Coast- guards, to be almost exclusively Irish. Unless I am strangely mistaken, Sir C. Gavan Duffy has entirely misrepresente& the truth of the matter as to the state of the case at the present day.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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