LORD FREDERICK CAVENDISH AND MR. BURKE. [To THE Eorroa OF
THE " SPECTATOR.".1 SIR, —In your paragraph with regard to the outrage on Lord French, comparing it with the Phoenix Park murders of 1852, I think there is a slight error of fact. It states that " Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke had only just arrived in Ireland on their mission of conciliation when they were murdered." It was Lord Spencer and Lord Frederick Cavendish who had arrived together on that mission, as Viceroy and Chief Secretary respectively. Mr. Burke, the Under-Secretary, had been in offiee for some time, and was a marked man, and it was against him that the assassins' plot was directed. It was owing to the incidental fact that Lord Frederick Cavendish was in Mr. Burke's company at the time that he (Lord Frederick) was assassinated, as it was proved at the time that his assailants were unaware of his identity.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Greenfield Road, Colwyn Bay. THOMAS JONES.
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