27 MAY 1911, Page 17

NATIONALIST UTTERANCES IN IRELAND.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—The Goodbodys are only one of several Quaker families who prospered and made the King's County prosper in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The Nationalist menace which you mention in your issue of last week reminds me of a remark of Jowett which I heard him make at one of his breakfast parties at Balliol in 1886, when the Home Rule Bill had just been brought in : " Home Rule would discourage

capital in Ireland."—I am, Sir, &c., UNIONIST.