"LIBERTY " IN IRELAND. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "
SPECTATOR."' think your readers may be interested in the following examples of the liberty and liberality towards the minority in Southern Ireland, in a letter from a Belfast friend recently :- " Our letters are to go by Larne and Stranraer, so I venture to give you a few instances of what is going on. A lady in Dublin sent money to a London shop for a costume she was ordering; the letter was returned to her with the in- timation that she was not to buy things in England, and that her money had been placed in a Dublin shop, where she must buy her things. She went to this shop, but they had nothing she would wear, they refused to return the money that had been confiscated, so she had to buy other things up to the amount. A mother from the south wrote to the celebrated little boys' school at Kilkeel (Co. Down) asking when there would be a vacancy for her youngest boy (the older ones had been educated there). Her letter was returned with the inti- mation that she was not to send her boy to any school in Ulster or England, and enclosing a list of several Roman Catholic schools 'to which he could be sent.
Another lady had a 'visit from a man to inquire if her boy had learnt Irish; she said, ' No.' He then said : We give you six months to have him taught; if he has not learnt by that time we'll take him and place him where he can be taught it.' " Ballater.
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