AN IRISH STORY.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—In one of your articles in the Spectator of September 14th you say that the Irish are the most aristocratically minded people on the face of the earth. I can corroborate this by a fact that occurred some years ago in an Irish southern city. An old woman who had left it in her youth, when all the houses in the main street were occupied by the nobility and gentry, found in her latter years that these were all filled by merchants, traders, doctors, and others, and when her friend, who was showing her over the place, pointed out all the improvements, she only answered with grunts of dis- approval. " Well, at least you must admit that the streets are much cleaner."—" Faix, thin, and why not ; for isn't all the dirt swep up into the houses? "—I am, Sir, &o., 5 Martello Terrace, Kingstown. W. PRYCZ MAtararal.
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