- LORD D UEVERIN'S NATIONALITY.
[To TER EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR." j not " Shamrock " rather hard on "E. M. B." for what is obviously a slip of the pen? And does not "E. M. B.," after all, really touch on a point that has been raised over and over again in the miserable Irish controversy, but never settled, viz., What does "Irish" mean, when we are told that "Ireland should belong to the Irish"? If it means that only the pure Milesian race should own the soil, then I submit that the country would be under-populated. If it means all families who have been in Ireland down to the close of the seventeenth century, then the obnoxious Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Cromwelliau settlers must be permitted to live in peaceful possession of their lands. If it means every one who has been born in Ireland, then surely a large proportion of unlucky landlords, whose chief fault is that they have inherited Irish properties, ought to be allowed to enjoy such rents as the Land Commission have allotted to
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