LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE TANNER INCIDENT.
[To THI EDITOR OP TITS 94PRCTATOR."1 am an old reader of your paper, and think I feel fully the strength of your position against Mr. Gladstone's, and yet believe that Mr. Gladstone's policy is right, and will in the end prevail, though probably after a longer and wearier struggle than any of us at present anticipate. Your remarks on the Dr. Tanner incident illustrate this. You try, I am sure, to be fair, and yet you omit all reference to Mr. Beaamont's evidence that at first all parties looked upon the row as chaff, and also that Dr. Tanner was sneered at by the "gentlemen "of the Tory Party for having, as they thought, been cornered through a blander. The short experience I had in the House of Commons obliges me to believe this. The Irish Party are, in the social life of the House, boycotted by very many of the Tory Members, and that boy- cotting is in many ways extended to those Members of other sections of the House who maintain friendly intercourse with the Irish Members. Of course, the publication of " Parnellism and Crime" has tended to increase this ; but Tory Members have no right to expect courtesy from men who they say in public are the allies of murderers and assassins, and show they think so by their private conduct. The Times, no doubt, thought that their so-called revelations would be decisive of the con- troversy; but the late elections have at any rate proved that the result has only been to embitter it, and to render any solution of the problem less radical than Mr. Gladstone's impossible. Englishmen generally admire Kossuth, Mazzini, and Garibaldi. Are these men to be judged by the character and conduct of some of their associates P The Irish leaders are judged by a very different standard.—I am, Sir, Ac.,
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