28 FEBRUARY 1880, Page 14

THE IRISH BOROUGH FRANCHISE.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—I do not know whether the rule applies to country dis- tricts in Ireland, but in this city, and I have no doubt, in the other Irish Parliamentary boroughs, a house valued at £4 lets for about £9, so that, allowing for the difference in wealth between the two countries, the limitation of the borough fran- chise in Ireland to residents in houses valued at more than £4, would correspond to its being confined in England to house- holders paying about £13 of rent, or occupying houses worth £13 per annum,—not £6, as stated in the last Spectator.—I am, Sir, &c., Grange, Waterford, February 23rd. EDMUND HARVEY.