IRISH ADMINISTRATION.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.")
SI11,—Your correspondent, Mr. P. Villiers Stuart (Spectator, August 27t13), is very unfortunate in citing Lord Dunra.ven as an authority on Irish affairs. He quotes : "It [the Irish Govern- ment] is a sort, and a very bad sort, of bureaucracy,—a govern- ment by departments in Ireland, uncontrolled by Parliament, uncontrolled by any public body in Ireland." There is not an atom of truth in the statement. All the public Departments in Ireland are as much subject to Parliament as similar Departments in England or Scotland. Any fourth-form boy in Ireland is aware of this fact. I am sorry that any corre- spondent should use the Spectator for circulating such absurdities. The two expensive Departments in Ireland are
those of Education and the Police. Would Mr. Stuart abolish
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