THE WRONGS OF IRELAND.
[To THE EDITOR Or TES SFECTATOH."] SIR,--TO endorse what Mr. Hall said on this subject in your issue of November 26th, and to show that the rights of public meeting and the freedom of the Press are scarcely so shamefully infringed in Ireland as some Englishmen imagine, I send you a cutting taken on chance from the Leineter Leader of November 26th, in which journal a whole page is devoted to reporting the proceedings which took place at meetings of eleven different Branches of the National League in Leinster during the previous week.
The following are the two resolutions proposed on Sunday, November 20th, by the Prosperous and Caragh Branches of the National League :—
"That the Government of this country at the present time being carried on by means of murder, robbery with violence, petty larceny, and shooting with intent to kill, is a combination of all the most dangerous elements of social disorder and civil atrife; and that Mr. Balfour, by such method of Government, has done more to disgrace the name of England than all former statesmen have done to render it illustrious and great." "That the essence of all the vileness of the Government is concentrated in its treatment of the political prisoners, particularly Mr. Mandeville and the high-sonled patriot, in whose person all Ireland lies prostrate and strangled to.day, and that the record of all the gross barbarities practised by savage nations on prisoners of war furnishes no adequate parallel to the ferocious vin- dictiveness with which Mr. Balfour tortures his political opponents in the Irish jails."
It is evident that persons who state that the freedom of the Press is interfered with in Ireland, must either desire a license which nineteenth-century manners would scarcely tolerate, or the evidence on which their conclusions are based must rather be drawn from their imaginittions, than from the reports in the current newspapers—I am Sir, &c.,
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