The Times put out a curious feeler yesterday. It published
a letter by " A Briton " stating that certain " unspoken words" have come to the lips of hundreds of Englishmen with relation to Ireland, which they have been deterred from uttering by " the cruel and cowardly treatment of Mr. Eyre." These words are " martial law." "A cowardly S-cretary of State," says this amiable Briton, "with his dastardly colleagues, gave up to the fury of leagues and conventicles a man who braved all to save Jamaica." The Times at least steadily supported the " cowardly Secretary of State and his dastardly colleagues." Does it now repent, or fancy that Englishmen repent of the bare justicd they did Jamaica? If so, it is about time that " the cowardly Secretary of State and his dastardly colleagues" should return to save England from bloodthirstiness like that of this silly, slanderous, and anony- mous " Briton."
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